Sandra L. Glahn, PhD
Long before I pursued higher education, I worked in HR, which included serving as a publications editor in the financial services industry to put my husband through grad school. There I had a boss who believed I could write, so he sent me to study with a best-selling writer. That mentor encouraged me to improve by freelancing, which would force me to offer my work to the scrutiny of a broad group of readers. The red pens of other editors, painful as they were, helped me to grow in my craft.
Eventually, I opened a freelance writing business with clients such as Barney and Friends (please, don’t hold that against me) and DTS Magazine, for which I served as editor in chief for 17 years. I also went to seminary. All these years later, I have the privilege of calling myself an author and a teacher, mentoring master’s and doctoral students. My course topics range from writing for publication and self-publishing to teaching on women in public leadership, gender issues, and public speaking.
As part of my course load, I take students to Italy every other year for the course “Medieval Spirituality and Art”; I take students to Calvin College’s Festival of Faith and Writing; and I take students to the UK to study British authors with biblical themes (Inklings, Sayers, Austen, Dickens…). I also lead a private workshop for writers every year in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. (San Miguel de Allende is to Mexico what Santa Fe is to the USA.)
I’ve written or co-written more than twenty books. The subjects I’m most passionate about relate to women, gender, and justice. This focus came out of the decade that my husband and I spent going through infertility and pregnancy loss—subjects you will also find here. Our trauma led me to take a closer look at the Scriptures and their blueprint for marriage, women, gender, the human body, and bioethics. The answers I found drove me to look more closely at the cultural backgrounds that influence biblical texts that relate to these topics.
I love helping people engage their hearts and minds in these important issues. I also love helping them explore the biblical texts for themselves and to publish, if they have a passion for sharing their ideas.
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“Sandra has a keen editorial eye. She's smart and encouraging at the same time. She knows how to take good writing and pull out greatness. I wish all my editors were like her!”
Mary DeMuth
LITERARY AGENT. AUTHOR. SPEAKER. PODCASTER. ARTIST.