Nora’s writing career began at the age of six with her first novel, a twelve-page epic horse story. After brief flirtations with poetry and short stories, she discovered the lucrative world of nonfiction and successfully ignored high school by selling three books to small publishing houses. She found herself lured back to novel-writing as a high school senior, completing a variety of appallingly bad novels before finding one worthy of endless revision. Like most native Portlanders, she is a caffeine junkie, enjoys improvisational cooking, and fears the sun.