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Mike O'Brien is a writer and attorney living in Salt Lake City, Utah. Paraclete Press published his book Monastery Mornings, about growing up with the monks at the old Trappist monastery in Huntsville, Utah, in August 2021. The League of Utah Writers chose it as the best nonfiction book of 2022. O'Brien's novel, tentatively titled The Merry Matchmaker Monk, will be published in 2026. Learn more about him here.
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