Nina Burleigh

Journalist & writer

Nina Burleigh is a journalist, best-selling author, and documentary producer. She publishes American Freakshow, a Substack on politics, and is a contributing editor at The New Republic, with frequent contributions to The New York Times and New York Magazine. Her work has been translated into Norwegian and Italian. 
She has authored seven nonfiction books on diverse topics—archaeological forgery, 18th-century scientists in Egypt, James Smithson, Amanda Knox, and the Trump women—covered by The New York TimesThe Wall Street JournalBBC, and others. In 2024, she released Zero Visibility Possible, the first novella in a dystopian satire trilogy exploring public trauma’s impact on inner lives. The second, Turn Around Don’t Drown, is due in 2026. 
Of Swedish and Iraqi descent, Burleigh was raised and educated in the American Midwest. She has lived in Washington, D.C., New York, Norway, Paris, and Italy, and reported extensively from the Middle East. An adjunct professor at NYU’s Arthur J. Carter Journalism Institute, her work is widely cited in academic research. 

In Residency

August 2026

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