Hello — I am Nora. I write short essays about ordinary days, long walks and the things people leave behind. This page is a place to say who I am before you wander any further.
I grew up in a house full of books and spent ten years working in bookshops before I began writing full time. These days I rise early, make one strong coffee, and fill a few pages before the town wakes up. Most of what I publish starts life as a scribble in a pocket notebook.
When I am not writing you will find me on the coast path with a camera I barely know how to use, or in the kitchen attempting the same loaf of bread for the hundredth time. I believe in slow work, honest sentences, and leaving a little room to breathe on the page.
Key Facts
- Based in
- Portland, Oregon
- Working on
- A collection of coastal essays
- Before this
- Ten years in second-hand bookshops
- Happiest
- Walking, coffee, fountain pens
- Can talk for hours about
- Marginalia and tide tables
Write the small things down. They are the only things that turn out to have been the big things all along.
Elsewhere
How to use this template
Open index.html in Notepad and type over the words to make this page your own — the name, the story and the facts are all plain text. Then open style.css, where the colours and spacing live; short comments in that file point to each section. Save, refresh your browser, and you will see the change straight away.