Nina St. Pierre

Gossamer • 1st April 2021

All The Things We Cannot Keep

I have this set of love letters. Their envelopes are worn soft. The papery rectangles are hand-painted by an artist, a man whose small-town swagger captured me at 15, and again at 20 in a dark, smelly bar I snuck into.

Harper's BAZAAR • 4th February 2021

Before There Were Instagram Horoscopes, There Was Susan Miller

If social media introduced a new wave of interest in astrology, then Susan Miller is its dot-com foremother.

Catapult • 17th September 2019

How My Grandmother Took Me from Dollar Store to Dior

In 1996, my mother bought me a pair of baby-blue shell toe Adidas. The price tag: sixty dollars. For the rest of high school, they were my go-tos.

Victory Journal • 29th January 2021

Wizard Mode

Before they were married, Louise and Eric Wagensonner spent their Thursday nights playing pool at Delirium, a windowless, tunnel-shaped dive bar in San Francisco’s Mission District.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.