Nina Collins

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.