Nora Daniel


was born in mid-century Los Angeles to a kind and gentle modern architect father and a brilliantly articulate dancer mom. When she was five, the family moved from an apartment below the Freeman House into a house in the hills that her father designed. The house featured built in furniture covered with rough woven fabrics of gold, green and rust, and was designed to bring the outdoors in with an L-shaped deck, louvered windows, and broad glass walls. In this house, Nora learned that birds sometimes fly directly into glass, thinking nothing is there.



Nora was a professional dancer, teacher and choreographer for several decades, then a practitioner of Somatic Experiencing, and is the mother of two adult sons. She lives in Asheville, NC where she loves to write, garden, make quilts, and explore the world.