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.