Welcome to my website! I’m a writer and the host of Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship. I love analyzing anything related to friendship, which I’ve been doing since 2014. I’m also the co-director of the writing studio at ModernWell in Minneapolis with many writing credits on a variety of topics in magazines, websites, and anthologies. The podcast has been referenced in The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, and elsewhere.
Ways to get in touch:
Email: ninabadzin@gmail.com
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Where I’ve Been Published
(Many of my articles organized by subject are linked here, but a general overview of credits is below.)
Brain, Child Magazine (columnist), The Brevity Magazine Blog, City South Magazine, Edina Magazine, The Good Men Project, Gretchen Rubin’s Happiness Project Blog, The Herstories Project (columnist), The Huffington Post, The Jewish Daily Forward, Kveller (regular contributing writer), Mamalode, Mamapedia, The Mid, Modern Loss, Moment Magazine, Motherwell Magazine, Mothering, Nameberry, On Being, Reading Rainbow, The Review Review, Role/Reboot, Scary Mommy, The Sunlight Press, Tcjewfolk (regular contributing writer), The Times of Israel, Today Show’s parenting site, Twin Cities Daily Planet, The Wisdom Daily, The Woven Tale Press, and Write it Sideways, Writer Unboxed (columnist).
Fiction
My fiction has appeared in After the Pause, The Baltimore Review, Compose Journal, The Drum Literary Journal, Ellipsis Zine, First Day Journal, The Ilanot Review, Independent Ink Magazine, Literary Mama, Mash Stories, Matchbook Lit, Midwestern Gothic, Monkeybicycle, Pedestal Magazine, The Potomac, Sleet, Scribblers on the Roof, Talking Stick Journal, and Typishly.
Book Reviews
I also obsessively keep track of the books I read. I write pithy blurbs of at least 30 books a year and love the freedom to write about any books that strike my fancy. I tend to like literary fiction, women’s fiction, and nonfiction.