Nicole Baart was born and raised in a small town in Iowa.
She and her husband have three young sons. After the adoption of their infant son, Nicole discovered a deep passion for global issues and co-founded a non-profit organization, One Body One Hope, that works alongside a church and orphanage in Monrovia, Liberia. After the Leaves Fall and the sequel, Summer Snow (a 2009 Christy Award finalist for excellence in fiction), were Nicole's first books. She is also the author of The Moment Between and Beneath the Night Tree (February 2011), the anticipated conclusion of her first two books. The inspiration for Nicole's next novel was an unsolved murder near her hometown.
Nicole and her family live in Iowa.
Interview with Nicole:
Six things you might not know about Nicole:
- I will read anything I can get my hands on, including soup cans, shampoo bottles, and appliance instructions in any language. I was a Spanish minor in college and love finding lingual connections between languages.
- My middle name should be Grace. Not because it's true, because it would be ironic. My middle name is actually Lynn.
- I like a peanut butter and pickle sandwich about once a year, pregnant or not.
- I worked on a dairy as a ranch hand for several years cleaning stalls, dehorning calves, and milking cows. Most people don't believe this about me.
- I had four different majors in college before settling on English, Spanish, ESL (English as a Second Language) and Secondary Education. The four discarded choices were: Veterinary Medicine, Political Science, Law, and Journalism. Of course, what I really wanted to do was write, but since I figured I needed a "real" job, I bounced around a lot.
- Small town life is the only life for me.