Author. Essayist. Collaborative Writer. 

Whether telling her own stories or reporting on the lives of others, Nina is drawn to boundary breakers and in-between places.

Nina's Kirkus-starred debut memoir, LOVE IS A BURNING THING, was featured in People magazine, Esquire, and the LA Times. Set at the foot of a cosmic mountain, it's a story about fire, family, and what it means to believe; about the boundaries between mysticism and mental illness. 

An award-winning collaborative writer, she has written memoirs for big five publishers that span generations and geography. 

As a culture writer and essayist for big glossy and high-end niche magazines, she's profiled the sole woman in the Ruff Ryders street-bike crew for Victory and explored the prophecy of the mystical udumbara flower for Gossamer.

Nina holds an MFA from Rutgers, was a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Nonfiction Literature, and a RESP Fellow. She lives in Brooklyn.

Photo credit: LaQuann Dawson, 2023