Art is Life with Nina Adel

In this episode, we talk about Art with Nina Adel, an interdisciplinary artist, musician, craftsperson, speaker of languages, English professor, facilitator of the Nashville-based Immigrants Write Workshop, and recipient of a 2023 Yaddo artist residency.

She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University and an MA in English and Writing from Belmont University. Nina is a winner of the Bellevue Literary Review’s 2020 Buckvar Prize for her lyric essay Refugere. Nina’s most recent work has been published in Porter House Review, Maryland Literary Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, Breath and Shadow, Shark Reef, Tomahawk Creek Review, and many other publications. She has received recognition in such diverse corners of the arts world as Glimmer Train, The Kerrville Music Festival, and Wolf Trap, among others. October 2024 brought the release of her poetry chapbook Sugar Crash. She lives in Nashville with her family.

Nina is an advocate for human rights, daughter of the Civil Rights movement activists, single mother, student of the natural world, and self-proclaimed imperfectionist.

You can find Nina on IG: @writethinkspeak