Nora is a first generation Norwegian-American writer and a teacher of literature, theatre arts and music which has allowed her to travel, write and produce plays and, above all, learn from her students the world over. She is a member of the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques and the Dramatists Guild. She studied under poet Brigit Pegeen Kelly and mezzo-soprano Sylvia Stone at the University of Illinois.

Her one act play with music ELLIS ISLAND AHEAD! is published with Eldridge Plays and Musicals. THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS IN FRANCE is with Next Stage Press. Her two monologues THERE ARE NO CLOSETS IN MY CLASSROOM and EINAR'S RAGNAROK are included in the Smith and Kraus anthologies WE-US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters and The Best Female Monologues of 2023 respectively.