Nina Burleigh

Nina Burleigh is an investigative journalist, author, and documentary producer. She writes the Substack American Freakshow and is a contributing editor at The New Republic. Her work has appeared in The New York Times and New York Magazine. She has published seven nonfiction books on subjects including archaeological forgery, 18th-century scientists in Egypt, James Smithson, Amanda Knox, and the Trump women. In 2024 she released Zero Visibility Possible, the first novella in a dystopian satire trilogy.