NADIA NELL STARBINSKI: AUTHOR, POET, ONLINE STORYTELLER
Nadia N. Starbinski is an author and creator based in the Greater New York area. Raised in Northern New Jersey, she has always been drawn to stories - first in childhood notebooks, later on stages, and eventually across digital platforms where her writing found a devoted readership.
In 2017, she self-published her debut poetry collection, Excerpts from the Book I’ll Never Write, a raw and intimate body of work that resonated widely with readers navigating identity, love, and loss. She followed it with her second collection, Rip Tides, the following year. Her work explores themes of longing, emotional inheritance, becoming, and the quiet complexities of modern womanhood. She is currently developing a third collection rooted in family, forgiveness, and generational memory, slated for release in early 2027.
Drawing on her background in journalism and narrative storytelling, Starbinski approaches both writing and digital media with the same intention: clarity, honesty, and the belief that the most resonant work is the kind that feels lived-in rather than staged. What began as poetry evolved into a broader creative career — one where essays, visual content, and social media are treated not as performance, but as an extension of authorship.
She is the writer behind The Gap Between, a weekly blog living in the space between who we are and who we've learned to perform ourselves to be. Through honest, long-form essays she explores identity, creativity, mental health, and the quiet tension between the life we share online and the one we're actually living.
In 2025, she launched Nell & Co. Creative Studio, a boutique content house dedicated to helping bold brands and real people tell their stories through intentional online marketing. Built as a space where strategy meets creativity, the studio focuses on digital-first content — offering narrative-driven social media support, content creation, and behind-the-scenes event coverage.
She resides in Jersey City with her husband, Ryan, and their two rescue pitbulls.
Authored Works
Rip Tides (c) 2018
Riptides unfolds in two movements.
The first, Three Sheets to the Wind: Advice Our Drunk Mother Gave You, is a series of sharp, stripped-down one-liners — small sentences that linger long after you read them.
The second, Deep Six: Disposed Memories, moves into full poems exploring heartbreak, healing, and the quiet work of making peace with what once pulled you under.
Together, the collection traces the undertow of love and loss — and the resilience it takes to rise.
Written as a sequel to EFTBINW
Excerpts from the Book I’ll Never Write (c) 2017
Excerpts from the Book I’ll Never Write is a collection of poems and essays written over the course of a decade — pieces once kept private, later gathered into one place.
Organized into four sections - love, loss, acceptance, and growth — the book traces the evolution of voice, identity, and becoming.
It is both a time capsule and a quiet reckoning.