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Poems and essays

The Return, North Atlantic Books, Tools for Grief and Heartbreak, Jan. 2024
Against Rigor: In Favor of a Responsive Education, Dark Mountain Project, Nov. 15, 2023
Working the Steps, book excerpt, The Embody Lab, July 28, 2023
Seducing the Moon, Dark Mountain Project, Jan. 4, 2023
Writing, AROHO, June 21, 2021
To My Students, Radical Teacher: A Socialist, Feminist, and Anti-Racist Journal on the Theory and Practice of Teaching, April 21, 2021
Two Rivers, East Iowa Review, Oct. 2020—Winner of the Editor’s Choice Award
Poems, Nomadic Journal, Sep. 23, 2020
“Our Spirits Die When They Die”: Reflections on our Ecological Holocaust, Dark Mountain Project, Feb. 3, 2020
Poems, Nomadic Journal, Jan. 29, 2018
Dear Sophie: The Art of Reproduction in the Age of Ecological Catastrophe, Lilith, June 20, 2017
This Thing of Darkness, Counting the Bromer, May 13, 2017
Deportation Liturgy, Vox Populi, Feb. 15, 2017

Poetry chapbooks:
Leaving the Lecture on Dance, 2017
À Luz, 2016

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“Nina’s trauma-informed approach engagingly guides the reader toward the secret garden of somatic and spiritual awakening.”

—Cornelia Elbrecht, founder and director of the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy

Recent presentations

“Jewish Ancestral Trauma,” presenter and panelist, San Bernardino County Cultural Competency Summit

“Mah nora ha-makom hazeh: Poems of Trauma and Healing through Somatic Presence,” presenter, Conney Conference on Jewish Arts

”Naming and Responding to Ancestral, Pandemic, and Ecological Trauma from Bildung to the Jewish Holocaust,” presenter and panelist, American Academy of Religion

Interviews

  • Dating, Sex & Love in Recovery

    Sun & Moon Sober Living
    July 14, 2026

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  • The Mind-Body Guide to Recovery

    Sun & Moon Sober Living
    June 18, 2025

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  • Physically Experiencing the Twelve Steps

    Positive Sobriety
    Nov. 18, 2023

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  • The Mind-Body Guide to the Twelve Steps—Healing from Trauma and Addiction

    Recover Your Soul
    Oct. 15, 2023

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  • Rock-Bottom Truth

    The Truth to Power Show
    Oct. 6, 2018

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  • Listening as a Sacred Act

    Jewish Ancestral Healing
    Episode 2.12

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