About Monica

Monica Messer

Monica Messer is a debut novelist based in Omaha, Nebraska. After a forty-year career in technology and executive leadership, she turned her attention to fiction and to questions that have followed her throughout her life: how families construct their stories, how institutions protect themselves, how women navigate power and responsibility, and how the choices one generation makes shape the next.

She spent much of the 1990s in Northern California during the Internet startup era, an experience that informs the academic and professional world of The Family Narrative.

When she isn't in Omaha, Monica spends time in Los Angeles with her daughter and siblings and at her home in Belize with her husband, where she particularly loves to write.

Her debut novel, The Family Narrative, is complete at approximately 72,000 words.