About
Glenn Lyvers
American writer, editor, and publisher in Johnstown, Pennsylvania — poet, mentor, technologist, and lifelong maker.
Recent
Timeline & What’s New
- Jul 2026
Reopened Green Submissions — free submission-management software for literary magazines, journals, and small presses, so young presses can grow without paying costly third-party platforms. A personal commitment to the writing community, back with great joy.
- Jun 2026
Released Bloodsworth: Tidal Brood, a novel of prose horror — free to read online.
- Jan 2026
Kicked off the new year with a theme song.
- Oct 2025
Began concrete work on a new cryptocurrency, Spearmint (SPMTC) — built on transparency, proof of work, and publicly auditable blockchains. Public release expected in 2026.
- Oct 2025
Added the “Games by Glenn” link for a little more fun.
- Jun 2025
Now offers code mentoring for new and advanced coders.
- Apr 2025
Renewed General Membership and Patron of the Arts status at the Pennsylvania Poetry Society — support the arts!
- Jan 2025
Released a new full-length collection of short poems, Riding the Short Line.
- Feb 2024
Launched Easy Paid Downloads, a custom application that helps independent writers sell digital books directly from their own websites.
- Jul 2023
Began building a comprehensive security class for WordPress.
- Jun 2023
Finished judging the Iowa Haiku Competition; shut down Green Submissions.
- Mar 2023
Bought new servers for all the hosted writers and businesses.
- 2023
Monthly Poetry Reading Events continue with poets from around the world.
- Jul 2022
Started a serialized novella, Mercy — A Love Story About a Broken Cowboy, Killer Aliens, and a Questionable Woman.
- Feb 2022
Photography gallery software updated.
- 2021
Completed MasterClasses with Billy Collins (poetry), Annie Leibovitz (photography), and James Patterson (fiction); selected to judge the 2022 Iowa Poetry (IPA) haiku competition.
- Ongoing
Monthly poetry readings on his YouTube channel; continued Pennsylvania Poetry Society membership.
Life
Biography
Glenn Lyvers (1969–current) was born in Michigan and has also lived in California, Georgia, Indiana, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. He has traveled throughout the Americas and Europe, including time spent living and studying in Oaxaca, Mexico. He speaks English and Spanish, and attended Indiana University, the Robertson School of Government, and Regent University Law School.
A business owner and advanced technician, most of his followers know him as an American writer and editor living in Johnstown, PA. Outside of writing, his interests include photography and karaoke.
His Work
Writing & Publications
Lyvers’ most recent collection is Riding the Short Line. His best-known book is Harborton, a poetry chapbook from the Eastern Shore of Virginia (now available in e-book format). Earlier books include Midwest Collection and Burnt Umber (MLM Press), both out of print. Early on, he self-published a quirky chapbook, Trinkets, which you can have for free by clicking here. He is always working on his next book.
His poetry and fiction have been published internationally, including works in Calliope Nerve, Camroc Press Review, Chronogram, Clockwise Cat, Contrary, Danse Macabre, East Coast Literary Review, Everyday Poets Magazine, Everyday Weirdness, Flutter Poetry Journal, Leaves of Ink, Mad Swirl, Red River Review, San Pedro River Review, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Shoots and Vines, The Blue Hour, The Houston Literary Review, The Legendary, The Stray Branch, Undertow Tanka Review, Verse-Virtual, Wilderness House Literary Review, Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores, Word Catalyst Magazine, and elsewhere.
As an Editor
Literary Journals
To date, Lyvers has edited 150+ literary journal issues, including:
52 Issues of Three Line Poetry
9 Issues of Tanka Journal
40 Issues of Poetry Quarterly
8 Issues of Jitter (Jitter Press)
14 Issues of Inwood Indiana
64 Issues of Haiku Journal
7 issues of Dual Coast Magazine
15 Issues of 50 Haikus
As an Editor
Books & Chapbooks
Lyvers has edited more than 75 books and chapbooks:
A Poverty of Words by Frederick Pollack
An Unwalled City by Genevieve Betts
Before There Were Bones by William G. Davies Jr
Formation by Tammy T. Stone
Near Death / Near Life by Dennis Maulsby
Scudder’s Gorge by Geoffrey Craig
Spy Pond by Ed Meek
The Hurricane by Deborah Guzzi
The Sacred Monotony of Breath by Robert Nordstrom
Body Politic by Rich Murphy
Free Fire Zone by Dennis Maulsby
The Darkroom Poems by Dr. Anna Cates
Waiting for the Light to Change by Scott Ruescher
The Brave Maiden by Geoffrey Craig
Counter Point by Laura Rodley
The Buddha Knot by Michael P. McManus
Bad for the Heart by Howie Good
encircled by John Reinhart
Ephemorphosis by Melodic Rose
The Ten Most Important Questions Of The Twentieth Century by Louis Gallo
Window Left Open by Ayaz Daryl Nielsen
Ashes of Memories by Jen Emmerich
Magical Yogis by Mark Tulin
Why I Love You by Martin Knabe
One Step Ahead by Ken Jones
Things I Can’t Remember to Forget by Carol Lynn Grellas
Souls Cleaner Than Ours by Michael Flanagan
Torpedoes Away by Nicholas D’angelo
Dreams of Somewhere Else by Ken L. Jones
The Everleigh Poems: The Butterflies of the Second City by Elisa Orzac Shoenberger
An August Nightmare by Stephen Dudas
Baggage May Shift by Terez Peipins
Leading the Beast Home by Daryl Muranaka
Our Situation by Luther Jett
Poetica de Poetica by Joe Masi
Elemental by Julia Klatt Singer
Still Life, Requiem and an Egg by Marian Willmott
Orphan Haiku by Dennis Herrell
Desert by Lisa Stice
Brief Candles by Bill Rector
Old Friends at a Party by Les Bohem
Catch as Kitsch Can by Rodd Whelpley
Lyrics from the Central Plateau by Tim Gavin
Final Inventory by David Anthony Sam
The White Forest by Joel Van Valin
Pixelated Tears by Kaecey McCormick
On the Jefferson Line by Eve Ott
XXX (THIRTY) by Xavier Pastrano
Drowning at The Pool Party for Lifeguards by Timothy Martin
Until I Couldn’t by Claire Scott
Relic And Myth By Jeanne Julian
You/Wee: Poems From A Father by Sidney Thompson
Blackbird Songs by Katie Sullivan Hughbanks
Socorro Prophesy by E. Doyle-gillespie
Final Arrangements by Mickey J. Corrigan
The Impressionist Painter by Alan Humason
Deep Fahrenheit by Amy Gordon
Driving Around, Looking in Other People’s Windows by Cl Bledsoe
Vinnie by Janet Mccann
The Rock in the Middle of the Road by Edward D. Miller
Dirty Handed Graspings by Ed Ahern
What Worlds and Moons by Peter Schireson
Vaulted Skies by Martina Reisz Newberry
Pushing 50 by Amy Fletcher
Euonymus by David Appelbaum
A Tale of Water by Sandra Marshburn
Little Suites by Deborah Lefalle
Crossing the Days by James Scruton
Toward a Peeping Sunrise By Carole Mertz
Love & Poison by Arya F. Jenkins
High Water Lines by Lauren Scharhag
Barefoot Girls by Ann E. Michael
No More Kings by Lily Iona Mackenzie
The Long Good-Bye by Bruce Gorden
Michigan Reunion by Peter Hoheisel
Close to the Fallen by John Valentine
Accomplishments
Awards & Honors
Lyvers currently judges the annual Rebecca Lard Award in poetry, offered by Poetry Quarterly. His own awards include (he doesn’t list everything here, and certainly not nominations or mentions):
- Wolfson Award, 2009 — 2nd Place, fiction
- Best Poet Award, 2009 — Midwest Literary Magazine
- Indiana University Annual Poetry Contest, 2011 — 1st Place, poetry
- Amy L. Dengler Award, 2017 — 1st Place, poetry
- Basho Bash (Haiku) Award, 2017 — 1st Place, poetry
- Mary Winklebeck Award, 2017 — 3rd Place, poetry
Influences
Reading & Influences
Reading Now
Aimless Love by Billy Collins, Migration: New & Selected Poems by W. S. Merwin, Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert, Devotions by Mary Oliver, Letters from a Stoic by Seneca, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
Favorite Books
Going Fast — Fredrick Seidel; The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Shawl — Cynthia Ozick; Sailing Alone Around the Room — Billy Collins; Ooga-Booga — Fredrick Seidel; Earlier Poems — Franz Wright.
Favorite Authors
Raymond Carver, John Ashbery, Billy Collins, Fredrick Seidel, Ted Kooser, Elizabeth Bishop.
Beyond the Page
Ventures & Community
Glenn Lyvers serves the writing community as the Masthead at Prolific Press Inc. He is the creator of GreenSubmissions, a free submission-managing software suite serving many literary journals online, as featured in Poets & Writers Magazine. He also invented and maintains privately brandable submission-managing software, available at SubmissionManager.org.
Elsewhere
Interviews & Profiles
Lyvers maintains bios at LinkedIn and Poets & Writers Magazine, which may occasionally contain information not found on this page. Interviews include Considered Bookshelf and With Five Questions.
Say Hello
Connect
He can be contacted through Prolific Press.