Nicole is a writer and editor living in Southern California with her husband and son. She has been the home and garden/travel editor at the Orange County Register, and has written and edited for numerous publications, including VIV magazine, Family Circle, the Boston Globe, Los Angeles magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and others. Recent features she's written include stories about a treehouse designer, why we need a surgeon general, how a cocoa bean chemical can reverse memory loss, and reasons to take an inn-to-inn hike along the Southern California coast. When she's not obsessing about her garden, she enjoys traveling, cooking, and reading fiction.
