Nicci Kadilak is an educator, author, journalist, and mom whose personal essays have been featured in publications such as Zibby Mag, MamaMia!, and The Motherload. Before becoming a full-time writer, she was a K-12+ teacher, tutor, and school administrator. She could never fully leave the ed­ucation world, and she still takes regular work as a consultant. She holds a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience (with a minor in math) from Boston University and a master’s in education administration. When We Were Mothers is the first of many novels Nicci intends to publish–though hope­fully the rest take fewer than four years to write. Nicci lives with her hus­band and three children outside Boston, where she writes and produces a local news publication.