Nina Burleigh is a journalist, best-selling author, documentary producer, and publisher of a substack on politics called American Freakshow. A contributing editor at The New Republic and frequent contributor to the New York Times and New York Magazine, her journalism has been published widely including in translation in the Norwegian and Italian press. She’s the author of seven critically acclaimed nonfiction books on an array of topics including archaeological forgery, scientists in 18th Century Egypt, James Smithson, Amanda Knox in Italy, and the Trump women. In 2024 she published her first novel, Zero Visibility Possible – the first in a planned trilogy of dystopic satires. She was born and educated in the Midwest, has been based in Washington, D.C., New York, Norway, Paris and Italy, traveled and reported extensively in the Middle East. An adjunct professor at NYU’s Arthur J. Carter Journalism Institute, Google Scholar says her work has been cited in hundreds of scholarly articles.
