John R. Sack

John R. Sack was born in Springfield, Ohio, and earned a BA in English from Yale University and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. As a young man he spent two years as a Trappist monk at Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky, where Thomas Merton was his novice master, and he later trained in a Hindu ashram in Ganeshpuri, India.

Spiritual awakening and transformation run through his fiction and nonfiction: the novel The Franciscan Conspiracy and its companion Angel’s Passage, The Wolf in Winter, Yearning for the Father, a guide to contemplative prayer, and Trappist Tales. He lives in southern Oregon with his wife, the author Christin Lore Weber.