Nora Belblidia is a magazine writer, editor, and researcher, specializing in profiles that dig into a person’s creative process, and longform narratives that examine subcultures and small worlds. She currently works as a senior editor for Undark Magazine.
Her writing has appeared in Undark, Al Jazeera, Nobody Zine, Columbia Journalism Review, and BmoreArt, among others. Her photography often accompanies her writing. She has also fact-checked for The Washington Post Magazine, Boston Globe, Longreads, and Discover Magazine.
Lately, she’s become involved in documentary filmmaking and is currently serving as an associate producer for the independent feature, Fenced.
In her previous lives, Nora has been as a psychedelic guide and research coordinator at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, a pedicabber and waitress in New Orleans, an artist assistant in Los Angeles, and an urban geography student in Montreal.
She now lives in New York.