Glen Hirshberg graduated from Columbia University, where he won a Bennett Cerf Prize for Best Fiction. He received his MFA and MA from the University of Montana, where he was a fiction fellow and received a Bertha Morton scholarship.

He is the author of THE SNOWMAN'S CHILDREN, his debut novel, which received rave reviews from the Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews (starred review); and THE TWO SAMS, his debut ghost story collection, which won the International Horror Guild, was a Publishers' Weekly Best Book of 2003. AMERICAN MORONS, his second collection of ghost stories, won the 2007 International Guild Horror Award for Best Collection. His novella, "The Janus Tree," won the 2008 Shirley Jackson Award.

Hirshberg teaches writing and the teaching of writing at Cal State San Bernardino.