Glen Huser (born 1 February 1943 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian fiction writer. Vancouver School of Art, second year qualification, 1965; University of Alberta, BEd (with distinction), 1970, M.A., 1988. Career Huser completed two years in teacher Education at the University of Alberta before starting his first career as a teacher at Rosslyn Junior High School in Edmonton, where he taught art and English for three years. During this time he took on a part-time job reviewing films for The Edmontonian, a weekly community and entertainment magazine. After spending a winter term at the Vancouver School of Art (1964–1965), he returned to Edmonton, taught for one year at Highlands Junior High School, and then worked as a classroom teacher at McArthur Elementary School from 1967 to 1969. Following another year of study at the University of Alberta, he began a career as a teacher-librarian in Holyrood, Lendrum, Homesteader, Kirkness, and Overlanders Schools. In 1978, he developed Magpie, a quarterly magazine that showcased student writing and graphics and took on the job of managing editor of the publication for twenty years. From 1988 to 1996 he was a learning resources consultant for Edmonton Public Schools, working not only with Magpie, but selecting media and assisting libraries throughout the district. In his spare time Huser reviewed children's and young adult books for the Edmonton Journal, a pursuit that would ultimately span close to twenty years. From 1997 to 1998, he worked as a student teaching advisor at Concordia College, and then as a sessional instructor in Elementary Education at the University of Alberta from 1997–2000 and 2003–2004. He worked as a language arts resource writer at Oz New Media/Education-on-line from 2000–2001. Following his retirement from Edmonton Public Schools, Huser worked as a writer-in-residence at a number of Edmonton schools including Aldergrove, Lendrum, Mee-Yah-Noh, and Virginia Park. From 2006–2010, he developed and taught the Writing for Children and Young Adults component of UBC's online MFA in the Creative Writing program. Mr. Huser continues to inspire young students and visits elementary schools, such as St Francis Xavier School, in Vancouver. Personal life Huser has two sisters, Karen and Sharon, and a brother, Dale. His father, Harry Huser, was an artist, but also worked as a logger, carpenter, garage mechanic, and a school bus driver. His mother, Beatrice Daily Huser, was a teacher in Ashmont, Alberta. In 1958, the family moved to Edmonton in