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Nina Lorez Collins is a writer, editor, entrepreneur, and consultant in the areas of narrative medicine, community building, and the emotional lives of women 40+. Her book, What Would Virginia Woolf Do? And Other Questions I Ask Myself As I Attempt to Age Without Apology, was published in April 2018. She’s a graduate of Barnard College and has a Master’s degree from Columbia University in the field of Narrative Medicine. Nina spent the first eighteen years of her career working in book publishing, first as a literary scout and then as an agent, both in companies she founded herself. She then went on to create and build a 30,000+ member community and social platform/app for women called The Woolfer. In 2021 she sold The Woolfer to a Silicon Valley start-up called Revel, where she then worked as the Chief Creative Officer in charge of partnerships, programming, and content. Nina is the board chair of the Brooklyn Public Library, a trustee of the publishing house Spiegel & Grau, and the literary executor of the estate of her late mother, the filmmaker and writer Kathleen Collins. She has four grown children and lives in Brooklyn

You can read Nina’s writing in Vogue, where she discusses her mother, filmmaker, and author Kathleen Collins. You can also find her work featured in Elle, AARP’s The Girlfriend, and Oldster.