 Born in 1940 in California to Nisei (second-generation) parents in California, Glenn (a Sansei) was incarcerated from 1942 to 1945, along with more than 120,000 other Japanese Americans, in concentration camps.Glenn's family was first assigned to live in the horse stables at a race track in Turlock, California, and thereafter was sent to the Gila River camp in the Arizona desert, and then to the Heart Mountain camp in the high country of Wyoming.When her family was released in 1945 they moved to Chicago, where Glenn was raised until the age of 16.