Glen Hirshberg 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. Glen's first novel, The Snowman's Children, was published by Carroll and Graf in 2002. The Two Sams, published in 2003, has received multiple International Horror Guild and World Fantasy Award nominations. Glen Hirshberg lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife and children.