About the Author

Glen is currently at work on Next Stop, a memoir based on her May 2009 Washington Post Magazine feature story about parenting an autistic child to adulthood and then learning to let go - forthcoming in 2012 from AmyEinhornBooks/Putnam.

A former TV news reporter, Glen's work has appeared in the Washington Post, American Magazine, Revolution, A Cup of Comfort and the East Coast Women's Anthology. She received her M.F.A. from American University. She is the author of a novel, The Sweetgrass Code, The Inside of an Egg, a short story collection, and the play Changing Places, produced by the Children's Theater of Arlington. She is the recipient of the Southeastern Writers Association Best Fiction award and a Noted Writer from the 2005 and 2006 Boston Fiction Festivals.

Glen has taught writing at American University with Fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Casa Libre in Tucson.