Career
Born and raised on the Prairies, she moved to Nova Scotia in 1983. Neilsen Glenn is the author and editor of several books on literacy and ethnography, scholarly and freelance articles on women and literacy, and book reviews in national and international journals and newspapers. Her first book of poetry, All the Perfect Disguises, was published in 2003.
In 2007, a chapbook, Saved String (Rubicon Press) and the collection Combustion (Brick Books) were published.
Neilsen Glenn published "Lost Gospels" (Brick Books) in 2010. A collection of essays on poetry and loss, Threading Light, was published in 2011 by Hagios Press.
The best-selling anthology of poetry and prose about mothers, "Untying the Apron: Daughters Remember Mothers of the 1950s" was published in 2013 by Guernica Editions. Neilsen Glenn was appointed poet laureate for the Halifax Regional Municipality in 2005, a role she held through 2009.
She lives in Halifax, and teaches at Mount Saint Vincent University.
Neilsen Glenn has taught writing (poetry, creative nonfiction/memoir) across Canada, as well as in Ireland, Australia, Chile, and Greece. She has worked extensively with writers in all walks of life since 1983.
