Nina Serrano (born 1934[4]) is an American poet, writer, storyteller, and independent media producer who lives in Vallejo, California.

[1][7] She trained in theater,[8][9] studied anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and traveled with student peace groups to Soviet Russia and revolutionary China in the 1950s.

[15] Returning to San Francisco, journalism, playwriting and poetry filled the early years of her development as an activist writer.

[26] In 2024 she received an Adelle Foley Award from PEN Oakland for her work as an author, radio host, and political activist.

Serrano served as an Alameda County Arts Commissioner, and is a former director of San Francisco's Poetry in the Schools program.

[31] Nina Serrano appears in the video "Frida en El Espejo/Frida in the Mirror" by Adrian Arias and music by Greg Landau[32] which screened at the SF Film Festival in April 2009.

She is a great fan of the band Carne Cruda and their song “Oakland's Tight.” She is consultant for Round World Media and Fig Leaf Technologies.