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Glen Hirshberg
| Full Name: |
Glen
Hirshberg |
| Born: |
June 5, 1966
Royal Oak, Michigan |
| Occupation: |
Writer |
| Nationality: |
American |
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Biography
Three-time International Horror Guild Award Winner Glen Hirshberg's novels include The Snowman's Children, The Book of Bunk, and Motherless Child, which was recently republished in a new, revised edition by Tor. Good Girls, the sequel to Motherless Child, will be published by Tor in February, 2016. He is also the author of three widely praised story collections: The Two Sams (a Publishers' Weekly Best Book of 2003), American Morons, and The Janus Tree. In 2008, he won the Shirley Jackson Award for the novelette, "The Janus Tree." He is a five-time World Fantasy Award finalist. With Peter Atkins and Dennis Etchison, he co-founded the Rolling Darkness Revue, an annual reading/live music/performance event that tours the west coast of the United States every fall and has also made international appearances.
Glen has also taught creative writing for more than two decades, inaugurating a signature program for high school students at Campbell Hall in Studio City, and helping to launch the MFA program at Cal State San Bernardino, where he served as a Fiction Professor. At CSUSB, he founded the CREW project, through which he trains some of his top students every year and then sends them out into the surrounding community to run intensive, months-long creative writing workshops each spring at schools that offer few creative outlets or opportunities. He has since brought that program back to Campbell Hall, where it has continued to thrive in partnership with the celebrated L.A.'s Best after-school programs.
After growing up in Detroit and San Diego, Glen attended college at Columbia University, where he won the Bennett Cerf Prize for Fiction. He earned his MFA and MA at the University of Montana, where he was a Fiction Fellow and Bertha Morton Scholar.
From 1995-2002, he was a regular contributor to L.A. Weekly, and his criticism and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and alternative newspapers across the U.S.
He is the singer, songwriter, and keyboardist with Momzer, who will release their second album, The Light at Someone Else's Table, in the fall of 2015.
He lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife, son, daughter, and cats.
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