Teju Cole (born June 27, 1975) is an American writer, photographer, and art historian.

Cole is the author of a novella, Every Day Is for the Thief (2007); a novel, Open City (2012); an essay collection, Known and Strange Things (2016), and a photobook, Punto d'Ombra (2016; published in English in 2017 as Blind Spot).