Nicole's a born and bred New Yorker who lives in Brooklyn with her darling children, aka Thing 1 and Thing 2, and dear husband, who got her into this mess of motherhood. She studied English and Theater at Yale before setting off to find fame and fortune on the boards of Broadway and on the silver screen in Hollywood. Don't bother to IMDB her. She came back to New York, got her Masters in English at Columbia and now contributes essays and reported articles regularly to Time Out NY Kids, Pregnancy, Parenting, American Baby and Parents.