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Gwendolyn Glover’s hometown of Westerville, Ohio, was a dry town until just a
few years ago. Sunday school was the highlight of her shy and awkward
childhood. At age nine, Gwen’s fascination with story overcame her dream to
be a tap dancer. This led her to create dramas for her brothers and friends to
act out, as well as developing detailed histories and complex relationships for
her dolls. In high school, she and her best friend wrote and designed comic
book heroines. As her senior year came to a close, so did her parents’
marriage, inspiring the young writer to remain at home dutifully working six
days a week to help provide for her newly-fractured family.
The following year, Gwendolyn arrived at the campus of Oral Roberts
University, thrilled for the opportunity to hone her craft. During her sophomore
year, her teenage brothers moved in with her and her friends, sharing a
cramped, two-bedroom apartment hidden behind a Wal-Mart, where she
worked as a pharmacy technician. The English department was her sanctuary
from the politics and sexism of the university, and there she discovered the
works of female African American writers like Toni Morrison, whose hunger to
have a voice echoed her own. Later, she connected with other outstanding
writers such as Sylvia Plath, Kurt Vonnegut, the Beats, and more recently,
Maxine Hong Kingston.
After graduating in 2003 with a major in Literary Writing and a minor in Youth
Ministry, the author followed her heart to San Francisco. In that beautiful and
mad city, she discovered the beauty and power of lesbian and gay literature,
and it’s also where she met and married artist David DeRosa, who spurred her
on to find her true voice.
Gwendolyn looks for the fantastic in the everyday. Her first novel, Cast the First
Stone, is dedicated to the many shining star-people that light her way, including
her mother, her husband, and her closest friends.
At the moment, Gwendolyn finds herself living in a Chicago apartment with her
husband, some orange furniture and Jasper, their lovebird.
few years ago. Sunday school was the highlight of her shy and awkward
childhood. At age nine, Gwen’s fascination with story overcame her dream to
be a tap dancer. This led her to create dramas for her brothers and friends to
act out, as well as developing detailed histories and complex relationships for
her dolls. In high school, she and her best friend wrote and designed comic
book heroines. As her senior year came to a close, so did her parents’
marriage, inspiring the young writer to remain at home dutifully working six
days a week to help provide for her newly-fractured family.
The following year, Gwendolyn arrived at the campus of Oral Roberts
University, thrilled for the opportunity to hone her craft. During her sophomore
year, her teenage brothers moved in with her and her friends, sharing a
cramped, two-bedroom apartment hidden behind a Wal-Mart, where she
worked as a pharmacy technician. The English department was her sanctuary
from the politics and sexism of the university, and there she discovered the
works of female African American writers like Toni Morrison, whose hunger to
have a voice echoed her own. Later, she connected with other outstanding
writers such as Sylvia Plath, Kurt Vonnegut, the Beats, and more recently,
Maxine Hong Kingston.
After graduating in 2003 with a major in Literary Writing and a minor in Youth
Ministry, the author followed her heart to San Francisco. In that beautiful and
mad city, she discovered the beauty and power of lesbian and gay literature,
and it’s also where she met and married artist David DeRosa, who spurred her
on to find her true voice.
Gwendolyn looks for the fantastic in the everyday. Her first novel, Cast the First
Stone, is dedicated to the many shining star-people that light her way, including
her mother, her husband, and her closest friends.
At the moment, Gwendolyn finds herself living in a Chicago apartment with her
husband, some orange furniture and Jasper, their lovebird.
