Nutting is author of the short story collection
Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls. The book was selected by judge
Ben Marcus as winner of the 6th Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. The book, published by now-defunct Starcherone Books, was a 2010 ForeWord Book of the Year finalist, as well as an Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal finalist for thought-provoking texts.
Tampa is a novel that combines erotica, satire and social criticism. It claims to address double standards like gender-based expectations of women, regarding beauty and the great extent of mischief for which women may be forgiven provided they are young and beauteous. The novel centres on a middle-school teacher who has sexual relations with her students. Nutting was inspired by
Debra Lafave, a teacher charged with having sex with her under-age students in 2005. Nutting went to high school with Lafave; seeing someone she knew on the news raised her awareness of the issue of female predators. The book was banned in many bookstores for being too explicit. When asked if it was difficult to come in and out of perspective with a deranged character Nutting replied: "It was like going under anesthesia—once I was inside it, I felt like I had to make the most of it because it was so difficult to go in and out. I ended up writing in really marathon sessions, 7-8 hours at a time. After I was done each day I had this hangover feeling—my body felt a grand fatigue even though I’d been seated the whole time. It took me a while to become verbal again after writing." She also explains how her publisher and editors understood that the content needed to be explicit and they didn’t ask her to tone it down. She contributed to
The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing (&NOW Books, May 2013). Her writing has appeared in
The Norton Introduction to Literature,
Fence,
Tin House,
The New York Times,
Bomb,
Conduit, and
O: The Oprah Magazine. In her first television work; she co-created
Made for Love with
Dean Bakopoulos,
Patrick Somerville and
Christina Lee; based on
her novel of the same name. The series premiered on
HBO Max on April 1, 2021 and it was cancelled in July 2022 after two seasons following the merger of HBO Max's parent company
WarnerMedia with
Discovery, Inc. to become
Warner Bros. Discovery. Nutting would later go on to co-create
Teenage Euthanasia with
Alyson Levy for
Adult Swim, which premiered on the network on September 6, 2021 and was renewed for a second season. The series was cancelled after two seasons. In September 2025,
Apple TV ordered the
miniseries The Off Weeks created by Nutting, with
Jessica Chastain and
Ben Stiller starring as leads. ==Personal life==