Nicole is the author of the memoir "Now I See You," to be published by St. Martin's Press (June 24, 2014), which has been chosen as a Must-Read by Glamour, Fitness, Martha Stewart Living and Redbook, among others. Her work appears in the New York Times, Good Housekeeping, New York, Psychology Today, Parents, American Baby, as well as Babble. Salon and xoJane. Her column, “Dispatches from Babyville,” has been running continuously for nine years in the Park Slope Reader. She chronicles her continuing mis-adventures in Mommydom on her blog, A Mom Amok.

A native of New York, she received a BA from Yale, a MA from Columbia, and a red nose from the San Francisco School of Circus Arts. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, three children and two feisty goldfish.