Glen's work as a children's author had its start in his formative years, when he surrounded himself with books that teachers considered below his ability level as a reader. Rather than being guided by what he "should read," Glen gravitated to books that provoked his curiosity, like mystery novels, comics, Choose Your Own Adventure books, and the literature of science fiction and fantasy role-playing games of the time, like Dungeons and Dragons and BattleTech. He discusses these formative reading experiences in "Everything I Know I Learned from Comics," an article published by the Sequart Research and Literacy Organization, and presented at both the 2013 CITE Conference at Appleby College in Oakville and the 2014 Reading For the Love of It Conference at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto. At the same time, Glen developed a fascination with games, a fascination that would lead him to combine this with his eclectic interests in reading and ultimately pursue studies in the History and Theory of Games in Literature and Culture both during his M.A. at McMaster University and his Ph.D. at the University of Victoria. His doctoral thesis, The Development of the Chess Motif in Victorian Fiction, traces the development of chess as a metaphor for sexual politics throughout its thousand year history in Western literature, with a specific focus on its use in nineteenth-century fiction.  Glen's first book, The Fifty Fatal Flaws of Essay Writing, was published by Althouse Press when he returned to Ontario to pursue studies in education. After joining Appleby College in 2001, he was introduced to Rubicon Publishing by Canadian children's author and Governor General's Award finalist, David Boyd, who taught with him in the English Department. Not surprisingly, Glen's first book for Rubicon was Games for the award-winning Boldprint series.

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES REVIEWING PW Comics World (2010-present)       Nearly 100 reviews written for the graphic novel division of Publishers Weekly EDITIING Sequart Research and Literacy Organization (2013-present)       Editing for a variety of Sequart publications, inlcuding Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts--The Interviews TEACHING The York School, Toronto, ON, 2012-present      Department of English Toronto French School, Toronto, ON, 2011-2012      Teacher Responsible for IT Integration Centre Dufferin District High School, Shelburne, ON, 2010-2011      Department of English Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, ON, Intersession 2010      Taught Special Topics in Curriculum: New Literacies: Making Multiple Meanings Lindsay Collegiate and Vocational Institute, Lindsay, ON, 2009-2010      Head of Languages (English and French departments) Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Summer 2009      Taught Children's Literature as the Foundation of Literate Behaviour across the Curriculum  Appleby College, Oakville, ON, 2001-2009 ·              Roles as Literacy Coordinator, Writer in Virtual Residence, Curriculum Chair,       Co-Chair English, Acting Head of Department, and Form Teacher H.B. Beal Secondary School, spring and summer, 2001 ·           Summer School Teacher for MAGOA1 and MFMOA1 (2001) ·           Full-time Occasional Teacher for MAGOA1 and MPM2D1 (2 sections) University of British Columbia, 1998-2000 ·           Taught courses in Short Fiction, Shakespeare, Poetry, the Victorian Novel, Major Authors, Writing,       and Technical Writing; Winner of the Ian Fairclough Prize for Teaching (2000) St. Charles School of Continuing Education, Summer 1998 ·           Taught Basic 0 and Basic 1 English to Adults primarily from Bosnia and the Middle East University of Victoria, 1995-1996 ·           Lecturer for University Writing and co-taught a third-year hybrid Shakespeare course McMaster University, 1991-1992 ·           Graduate Teaching Assistant for the first-year literature course

Free Web Counter