Baart is the critically acclaimed author of After the Leaves Fall, Summer Snow (a 2009 Christy Award finalist), The Moment Between, and Beneath the Night Tree (February 2011). She writes literary, hope-filled fiction about beauty in brokenness.

Nicole lives in Iowa with her husband and three young sons. She is passionate about global issues and is a founding member of One Body One Hope, a nonprofit organization that works alongside an orphanage in Monrovia, Liberia.