Nina Siegal is an author and journalist, and the founding editor of Time Out Amsterdam. She was born in New York City and has lived in San Francisco, Iowa City, Brooklyn, and now Amsterdam.
Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Art + Auction Magazine, The Progressive, W. Magazine and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications.
Nina’s first novel, A Little Trouble With the Facts (March 2008), was published by HarperCollins. It is also available from Books on Tape and and has been translated into Dutch, available from Truth&Dare in the Netherlands, a division of Foreign Media Group. It is also forthcoming in French.
Nina began her journalism career in 1994 at an independent weekly, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and then made the leap to become a stringer for The New York Times in San Francisco. She covered the Unabomber trial in San Francisco and wrote headline stories for the National Desk. Then she moved back to her native New York, to become a full-time contract writer for The Times, covering Harlem and the Bronx for “The City” section. She left The Times to join Bloomberg News as the urban life and culture reporter for the wire-service, radio and TV, and eventually became the international art market reporter for the wire service, helping to create the international cultural reportage called ‘Bloomberg Muse.’
In 2004, Nina left journalism to attend the legendary Iowa Writers’ Workshop, in Iowa City, where she finished her first novel, A Little Trouble With The Facts.
Upon completing her MFA degree in Fiction at Iowa, Nina was awarded a US Fulbright Fellowship to research her second novel, an historical fiction, in Amsterdam. She received additional support for that project from a Jack Leggett Felowship from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a Netherland-America Foundation Grant, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and the MacDowell Colony. Meanwhile, she continued to write freelance articles for several American and British publications, and worked as an associate editor for Amsterdam Weekly, an English language cultural newspaper. In the summer of 2008 she was appointed editor in chief of Time Out Amsterdam.
