NINA BURLEIGH

Contributor
TIME Magazine

Nina Burleigh is currently a contributor to TIME Magazine covering Congress. She covered Bill Clinton from January 1992 through November 1994, first for People Magazine, then for TIME. She has worked on or written stories about Clinton's politics, policies, strategies, staff and has travelled with him around the United States as a reporter for TIME. She also spent much of 1992 and 1993 focused on Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Burleigh is a native of Chicago who began her career in journalism at the Associated Press in Springfield, Illinois, and Chicago. Between 1987 and 1992, she was a regular contributor of features and a weekly column to the Chicago Tribune, specializing in women and feminist issues. She has also done some war reporting for TIME, covering Baghdad in 1991 and Haiti in 1994.

Burleigh, 34, is single and has a Master's in English Literature from the University of Chicago. She lives in Washington, D.C. Her writing on politics and other topics has appeared in TIME, Spy, Regardie's, the Chicago Tribune, Z Magazine and other publications.