Nuala Archer (born 1955) is an American poet of Irish descent, author of five books, most recently, Inch Aeons (Les Figues Press, 2006).
Her first book, Whale on the Line, won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1980.
During the 1990s, she briefly served as the director of Cleveland State University Poetry Center.
She has taught literature and edited the Midland Review at Oklahoma State University.
[clarification needed] Born in Rochester, New York to Irish parents, her family moved to Canada, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Panama.