Easthampton, MA
About the instructor
(they/them or she/her)
Somehow School Founder
Nora Claire Miller is a writer and educator with more than a decade of experience teaching creative writing to kids and teens. Nora holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a BA from Hampshire College. They have taught after-school poetry classes in Pittsfield public schools through The Mastheads, led youth programs and camps with the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio, the Iowa Youth Writing Project, the Junior High Writing Conference, and the Grant Wood Arts Colony Summer Camp. In addition to teaching writing, Nora has also adjudicated submissions for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and served as an admissions reader for the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio. They have also privately tutored high school students in creative writing and college-application essays.
Nora’s debut book Groceries won the Fonograf Editions Open Genre Contest (selected by Srikanth Reddy) and will be published in October 2025. Their poems and essays appear in venues such as The Paris Review, Chicago Review, and Bennington Review.
Nora lives in Western Massachusetts with their partner Kelly Clare and their cat Ramona. When they’re not teaching or writing, Nora can usually be found gardening or taking apart an old computer.