Nina is National Politics Correspondent at Newsweek Magazine and award-winning author of five books. Her last book, The Fatal Gift of Beauty, was a widely praised New York Times bestseller. In the last several years, she has covered an array of subjects, from American politics to the Arab Spring. She has written for numerous publications including Rolling Stone, Businessweek, The New Yorker, Time, New Yorkand The New York Times. She has appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline, The Today Show, 48 Hours, MSNBC, CNN and C-Span, on NPR and numerous radio programs.

Nina was born and educated in the Midwest, has traveled extensively all over the world, from the two poles to the Amazon, and everywhere in between. She has spent considerable time in the Middle East and lived in Italy and France. She covered the Clinton White House for Time and reported and wrote human interest stories at People Magazine from New York.
She is an adjunct professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and has lectured around the United States, in Italy, and in Mexico. Her book, Mirage, published in 2008 by Harper Collins, was selected by The New York Times as an editors' choice and won the Society of Women Educators' Award in 2008. She was writer in residence at the Siena Art Institute in 2013 and a Dora Maar Fellow in Menerbes, France, in 2014. She was a 2013 inductee to the Bill Miller Reporting Hall of Fame at the University of Illinois in Springfield, Ill.