Glen Hirshberg is the critically acclaimed author of five novels and four story collections. He is the founder and director of the Campbell Hall Creative Writing Program and the StorytellingCrew project, which trains high school students to teach creative writing to 3rd-5th graders at under-resourced area schools. At Cal State San Bernardino, he helped finish designing and then launching the MFA program, as well as creating the original version of the StorytellingCrew. In 2020, he founded Drones Club West, which offers periodic small-group writing workshops (online for now, though plans for in-person classes are in development) and editorial consulting opportunities. He received his B.A. from Columbia University, where he won the Bennett Cerf Prize for Best Fiction, and his M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Montana, where he was a Fiction Fellow and Bertha Morton Scholar. He lives with his family in the Los Angeles area.