Sabine Heinlein (born 1973) is a German American nonfiction writer and quilter. She is the author of the literary nonfiction book Among Murderers: Life After Prison (University of California Press, 2013) and the investigative book The Orphan Zoo: The Rise and Fall of the Farm at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center (Thought Catalog, 2015 and 2023). Heinlein’s essays, investigative work, and literary nonfiction have appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Psychology Today, The Iowa Review, and many other publications. Her work has been widely anthologized. She is currently a senior staff writer at Wirecutter, the product recommendation site of the New York Times.[1]