Nina St. Pierre

Collaborative Writer and Developmental Editor

Whether telling her own stories or helping others tell theirs, Nina is drawn to boundary breakers and in-between places. She specializes in globe-spanning memoirs or Big Idea books with strong personal threads and has collaborated on a number of book projects with CEOs, mountaineers, and scientists, to create sweeping stories of discovery, innovation, redemption, and healing. 

We all have those special moments or details that make our story uniquely ours. As a collaborator, Nina’s strength lies in listening for them. For moments that spark connection and make us more curious about the world around us. She brings both formal literary education and deep intuition to her projects. A non-traditional upbringing guides her dynamic approach to storytelling. Having lived and worked in communities across class, culture, and racial spectrums, she is skilled in turning complex lives and discoveries into books that are expansive, yet accessible to everyday readers. 

Her essays and features can be found in GQ, Harper's Bazaar, Mother Tongue, The Cut, Gossamer, Outside, and more. Her own memoir, Love is a Burning Thing, a story about fire, family, and what it means to believe, earned a Kirkus star, was named one of Esquire's Best Memoirs of 2024, and was featured in People Magazine and the LA Times. Nina holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Rutgers University. She was a 2023 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Nonfiction Literature and a 2023 Boston University Religion and Environment Story Fellow. Iowa-born, then raised in the mountains of Northern California, she’s spent the last decade in Brooklyn. You can learn more about her here.