Paulina Pinsky
she/they | writer, figure skater, sober.
Paulina believes you're a writer if you write, but she will never spell the word "receive" right on the first draft. She received her MFA from Columbia University in Nonfiction Creative Writing, where she teaches Comedy Writing to high schoolers. All her jobs are made up and can be found at paulinapinsky.com
Selected work
I Worked Hard To Recover From My Eating Disorder. Then Ozempic Came Along.
Huffington Post, 2025
NonfictionEssayPersonal Essay
I Had a One-Night Stand at a Tokyo Love Hotel
Cosmo, 2025
NonfictionEssayRomance
Other Mother, Finalist for The Anne C. Barnhill Prize for Creative Nonfiction
Longridge Review, 2021
NonfictionEssayPersonal Essay
How to Learn About Sex When Your Famous Sex-Advice Father Teaches You Nothing
Narratively, 2021
NonfictionLong ReadPersonal Essay
