Nicole SeitzNicole Seitz is the author of six critically acclaimed novels - Beyond Molasses Creek, The Inheritance of Beauty, Saving Cicadas, A Hundred Years of Happiness, Trouble the Water, and The Spirit of Sweetgrass. Her paintings are featured on several of er books. She is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Journalism, and also has a degree in Illustration from Savannah College of Art & Design. Nicole is a regular contributor to the Southern authors' blog, Southern Belle View and has had short stories, essays and articles published in The Charleston City Paper, Literary Dogs & Their South Carolina Writers, Lowcountry Dog Magazine, and SouthCarolina Magazine. Her original monologue, The Longing was part of Listen to Your Mother-Charleston in 2014. Nicole lives in the Charleston, SC area with her husband and two children, and teaches visual arts to elementary and high school students at a local private school. Read More Read Less