Nicole Baart was born and raised in a small town in Iowa.

She is the mother of two young sons and the wife of a pastor. After the adoption of their infant son, Nicole discovered a deep passion for global issues and is a founding member of a non-profit organization that works with a church and orphanage in Liberia. After the Leaves Fall and the sequel, Summer Snow, were Nicole's first books. Summer Snow is a 2009 Christy Award finalist for excellence in fiction. The Moment Between is her third book. The inspiration for Nicole's next novel was an unsolved murder near her hometown. Her fourth book is set for release in 2010.

Nicole and her family live in Iowa.

Interview with Nicole:

Six things about Nicole:

1. 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.
2. My middle name should be Grace. Not because it's true, because it would be ironic. My middle name is actually Lynn.
3. I like a peanut butter and pickle sandwich about once a year, pregnant or not.
4. I worked on a dairy as a ranch hand for several years cleaning stalls, dehorning calves, and milking cows. For inexplicable reasons, most people don't believe this about me.
5. 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.
6. Small town life is the only life for me.