Nina St. Pierre is the author of the Kirkus-starred memoir, Love is a Burning Thing, a story of fire, family, and what it means to believe; an exploration of the boundaries between madness and mysticism. Love is a Burning Thing is the 2025 Housatonic Book Award Winner for Nonfiction, was been featured in People, the LA Times, and named one of Esquire's Best Memoirs of 2024.

As a collaborative writer, she works closely with authors and public figures to co-create memoir, narrative nonfiction, and big idea books. Her collaborations have become national bestsellers and been optioned on proposal.

A literary writer with a journalistic background, Nina wrote for magazines, newspapers, and digital outlets, for over a decade. She has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Rutgers University, and in 2023 was named a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Nonfiction Literature. She brings a philosopher’s curiosity, a reporter’s precision and rigor, and an artist’s eye to every project.

Her reported essays and features on spirituality, subcultures, queerness, and family, can be read in GQ, Harper's Bazaar, Mother Tongue, The Cut, Gossamer, and Outside. Nina lives in Brooklyn.