Originally from California, Nina lives in Iowa City and is the founder and publisher of Brink, a nonprofit, in-print literary journal that champions hybrid work. The Literary Programming Director for the Mission Creek Festival, an annual immersive music and literature festival honoring independent expression. A graduate of Fuller and a 2023 Iowa Artist Fellow, she is an Assistant Visiting Professor in the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. She is at work on a collection of micro-essays on the subject of release.