I am Norah Hively. Welcome to my website. If you’re on this page, you’re probably a little curious what I’m about.

I have always been infatuated with the poetics of life. Ever since I could write I began writing songs to preform for myself or family members. I sang in talent shows, musicals, children’s choir, and even on the bus to school. I was always singing. 

As an adolescent, poetry and words on a page were my therapy for years. I struggled to communicate, out loud, what I was feeling. So, I wrote endless poems to manage the often confusing and painful emotions swelling through my young body.

I’ve always been an invested student, but English was where I really thrived—analyzing books, writing essays and poems. That was my shit.

In 2021, I left my small hometown of Waxhaw, North Carolina. Looking for something new and unknown, I moved out west where I had never been to attend the University of Colorado Boulder. There I studied Journalism and Media Production, building on my love for writing, creating and story-telling.

During my time at CU, I received many opportunities for being an invested scholar. For possessing the highest grades in my class, the journalism department granted me the invitation to a dinner with Brett Murphy, journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist. As an honors student, I met with a small group to chat with Rachel Fleit, director of viral documentary: Bama Rush (2023). I was accepted into the Boulder-CU Leadership Program (BCLP), where I worked with my mentor, Adele D’Ari—a small-business owner and psychologist— to sharpen how I lead, in my work and in my life.

In 2024, I studied overseas in Sevilla, Spain, and interned with an audiovisual production company called Son de Producción. I organized background roles in movies & trailers, made casting calls and attended production shoots. This job not only gave me new perspectives on culture but also a new grasp on storytelling beyond words into visuals and sound. 

My senior year, I completed a multimedia capstone on The Phoenix, a sober active community for people in addiction recovery, and an honors thesis on my family’s history with corporate abuse—from coal companies to Big Pharma in West Virginia. I told that story through writing, photos, video, and archival work. I graduated Magna Cum Laude in May 2025.

Now it’s 2026. I’m backpacking South America, chasing the unknown again.

And somewhere along the way, I realized this: I’m meant to build a life through music. 

I’ve always been obsessed with the poetics of life—using words, visuals, and sound to make sense of it. But music is the one medium that holds it all. Music blends language, emotion, rhythm, and atmosphere into something that can create entire worlds—real or imagined, but always deeply felt.

Music has carried me through the best and worst moments of my life. 

I am committed to leading a life that spreads the love and power music has to offer out to into the world and back to the people where it belongs. I believe we need this now more than ever. 

Thanks for joining me :)