Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (ibi June 7, 1943) je ako-ewi, olukowe, alawiso, alakitiyan, ati oluko ara Amerika. Ikan ninu awon akoewi to gbajumojulo lagbaye, ninu awon ise re ni awon iwe ewi, awo-orin ewi, ati awon ayoka orisirisi ti won da lori eya, oro awujo ati iwe omode. O ti gba opolopo ebun, ninu won ni Ebun Eso Langston Hughes, Ebun Eniyan NAACP. Won ti yan fun Ebun Grammy, fun awo-orin re The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection. \ "Nikki Giovanni", Biography.com. Jane M. Barstow, Yolanda Williams Page (eds), "Nikki Giovanni", Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007), p. 213.