  We construct the minimal effective field theory (EFT) of supersymmetric
inflation, whose field content is a real scalar, the goldstone for
time-translation breaking, and a Weyl fermion, the goldstino for supersymmetry
(SUSY) breaking. The inflating background can be viewed as a single
SUSY-breaking sector, and the degrees of freedom can be efficiently
parameterized using constrained superfields. Our EFT is comprised of a chiral
superfield X_NL containing the goldstino and satisfying X_NL^2 = 0, and a real
superfield B_NL containing both the goldstino and the goldstone, satisfying
X_NL B_NL = B_NL^3 = 0. We match results from our EFT formalism to existing
results for SUSY broken by a fluid background, showing that the goldstino
propagates with subluminal velocities. The same effect can also be derived from
the unitary gauge gravitino action after embedding our EFT in supergravity. If
the gravitino mass is comparable to the Hubble scale during inflation, we
identify a new parameter in the EFT related to a time-dependent phase of the
gravitino mass parameter. We briefly comment on the leading contributions of
goldstino loops to inflationary observables.
