About
The author of five books including the Anthology Trilogy and the highly-regarded short piece, “Bring in the Gladiators,” and the creator, writer, and producer of the pioneering and critically-acclaimed Welcome to the Machine podcast, Glen Hines was born and raised in Houston, Texas, and graduated from George Washington University School of Law in Washington, DC. His writing on military service, sports, current events, the outdoors, and the bright and dark sides of American culture has been published in various outlets, such as Sports Illustrated, Task and Purpose, the Human Development Project, Medium, and Amazon. The Welcome to the Machine podcast was featured on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible.
The son of a professional athlete and a career English teacher, he began his writing career as a lawyer, working for a few years in a corporate legal department and law firm. Needing a greater challenge and seeking a higher calling, in 1997, he entered the United States Marine Corps as an officer and military lawyer. For over two decades, he has served in various roles as a prosecutor, appellate government counsel, terrorism prosecutor in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and military trial and appellate judge five different times. Now with over 25 years of service, he is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, having served overseas in Kuwait, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Naval Station Bahrain, and elsewhere. From 2000-2002 and 2012-2014, he also served two stints as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice.
A former NCAA Division 1 letterman in football and baseball at two different schools, he is the only University of Arkansas two-sport athlete to have played on conference championship football and baseball teams (1989). His military service and athletic career have provided the ideas and basis for countless stories in his books and elsewhere.
He is also a member of the Family Advisory Board at the Boston University CTE Center’s Concussion Legacy Foundation and a member of the Surfrider Foundation. He has taught at the Naval Justice School, the Army Judge Advocate General’s School, the University of Arkansas School of Law, and Texas A&M University Law School.
Featured Work
Of Time and Rivers
Time and rivers are similar in that they both flow inexorably from one point to another in both linear and circuitous ways. No place along the route is the same as any other, and it is impossible to turn around and go back upriver or back in time. Sometimes we can control our path, and sometimes the path controls us. In Of Time and Rivers, four-time author Glen Hines provides a window into one writer's mind spent away from the fast-paced life. In a series of short stories written over the course of a one-year period, the author takes us on a journey through military service, separation, isolation, personal relationships, loss, the outdoors, the nature of small-town life, the changing nature of faith, and the regeneration that can be found in simply changing geography, jobs, and perspective.
Other Works
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Welcome to the Machine
2021
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Cathedrals in the Twilight
2020
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Crossroads
2019
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Cloudbreak: Stories of Our Times
2017
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Document
2016
