Colleen O’Brien earned her MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Montana. She taught English at Blackfeet Community College in Browning, MT and worked summers for the park service for several years. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. She and her husband own and operate small businesses in the hamlet of East Glacier Park, MT. She lives with her family near Glacier Park. Baited is her first novel and was earlier awarded the Michael Kenneth Smith Fellowship at Porches Writing Retreat in Virginia.

Colleen O’Brien casts a wicked, believable spell of deceit and heartbreak, a burn of a tale that begins to bubble and hiss, and then rapidly boil over. Imagine taking a walk in the dark woods with friends who have heartbreaking and monumental secrets to tell. Now imagine those friends are in Montana and the intertwine of their communal stories will take you to the edge of a precipice. Like all good mysteries, this story will catch you up. Baited is an intricately plotted masterpiece. A stunning, edge-of-your-seat drama. An exquisite all night read.   — Debra Magpie Earling

Colleen O’Brien earned her MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Montana. She taught English at Blackfeet Community College in Browning, MT and worked summers for the park service for several years. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. She and her husband own and operate small businesses in the hamlet of East Glacier Park, MT. She lives with her family near Glacier Park. Baited is her first novel and was earlier awarded the Michael Kenneth Smith Fellowship at Porches Writing Retreat in Virginia.

Colleen O’Brien casts a wicked, believable spell of deceit and heartbreak, a burn of a tale that begins to bubble and hiss, and then rapidly boil over. Imagine taking a walk in the dark woods with friends who have heartbreaking and monumental secrets to tell. Now imagine those friends are in Montana and the intertwine of their communal stories will take you to the edge of a precipice. Like all good mysteries, this story will catch you up. Baited is an intricately plotted masterpiece. A stunning, edge-of-your-seat drama. An exquisite all night read.   — Debra Magpie Earling

Colleen O’Brien earned her MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Montana. She taught English at Blackfeet Community College in Browning, MT and worked summers for the park service for several years. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. She and her husband own and operate small businesses in the hamlet of East Glacier Park, MT. She lives with her family near Glacier Park. Baited is her first novel and was earlier awarded the Michael Kenneth Smith Fellowship at Porches Writing Retreat in Virginia.

Colleen O’Brien casts a wicked, believable spell of deceit and heartbreak, a burn of a tale that begins to bubble and hiss, and then rapidly boil over. Imagine taking a walk in the dark woods with friends who have heartbreaking and monumental secrets to tell. Now imagine those friends are in Montana and the intertwine of their communal stories will take you to the edge of a precipice. Like all good mysteries, this story will catch you up. Baited is an intricately plotted masterpiece. A stunning, edge-of-your-seat drama. An exquisite all night read.   — Debra Magpie Earling