Nina St. Pierre

Gossamer • 8th July 2020

The Prophetic Flower

In the introduction to French pilot and author Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s whimsical classic The Little Prince, a Turkish astronomer discovers a new planet, but the scientific community doesn’t believe him because he’s dressed poorly.

Bitch • 24th June 2020

The Queer Gaming Avant Garde

"The here and now is a prison house," wrote the late scholar and theorist José Muñoz. “We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potential.”

Burn It Down: An Anthology • 30th October 2019

A Girl, Dancing (excerpt)

I am a girl, dancing. In shimmering floor-to-ceiling studio mirrors, my leg traced the half moon of rond de jambe. My body in arabesque was an arrow ready to pierce the sky.

InStyle • 14th August 2019

Paula Abdul's Renaissance

On the hottest Saturday in July, I stood on a chair in a sweaty ballroom at Manhattan’s Grand Hyatt Hotel next to a row of giddy dance moms filming their children.

NYLON • 4th June 2019

An Ode To The Bodysuit

As a flat-chested '90s tween, I spent most of my time in a one-piece. On weekends, I rocked trendy snap-crotch bodysuits while running my neighborhood dance troupe's rehearsal to "Baby Got Back."

InStyle • 16th May 2019

Women Over 30 Are Leaving Their Boyfriends For Other Women

This spring, on the eve of the equinox at a loft party in Brooklyn, I hinted to a woman I'd been crushing on that we might have a vibe.

Articulate • 16th May 2019

Janet Echelman Looms Large

Janet Echelman's elaborate aerial net sculptures fuse ancient craft with modern technology to create massive works that are strong enough to withstand a hurricane.

Electric Literature • 14th March 2019

The Lost City of Lemuria

My first language was one of transcendence. I was raised by a single, nomadic mother on a relentless spiritual journey, and my childhood was laced with chatter of ascended masters and astral traveling.

Narratively • 21st January 2019

My Adventures With Dr. Lovewisdom

"Go all the way down this road,” the driver said as he pulled my giant backpack from the combi, a hybrid van-taxi, before chugging off and leaving me at the gated entrance to Vilcabamba, Ecuador’s southernmost village.

Catapult • 13th September 2018

The Heart of Padre Pio

I waited in line for an hour to see his heart, eating sausage in a semolina bun with roasted hot and sweet peppers, watching children chase each other around headstones in the church graveyard as live Polka music blared.

Articulate • 1st May 2018

The Mother Tongue

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is a poet and workshop facilitator. The recipient of the 2015 Barnes & Noble Writers For Writers Award, she is the founder and curator of Calypso Muse and the Glitter Pomegranate Performance Series.

Brooklyn Magazine • 26th March 2018

Jennifer Ferrin Talks Creative Freedom and Playing Complex Women

In Mosaic, HBO’S six episode television series directed by Steven Soderbergh, Jennifer Ferrin plays Petra Neill.