Michael W MonkMichael W. Monk was born in Grand Island, Nebraska, and is a 1967 graduate of Grand Island Senior High School, the school to which he returned in 2015, metaphorically speaking, to contribute a bimonthly column for the alumni newsletter, collected her in A Distant Mirror Anthology. In 1971 Monk received his BA from Harvard College with a degree in English literature with honors. After graduating in 1974 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he practiced labor and employment law in Los Angeles for more than forty-six years. From 1990 to 1994, Monk was a minority owner of the San Diego Padres baseball team. In 2014, Monk's play, The Tragedy of Orenthal, Prince of Brentwood, published by Small Batch Books, was named as a finalist in fiction for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and won an Outstanding Book of the Year award by the Independent Publisher Book Awards. Now mostly retired, Monk and his wife, Janet Bogle, reside a majority of the year at Lake Okoboji, Iowa. Read More Read Less