Born in South Bend, Indiana, Ann McGlinn has lived throughout the United States as well as abroad. In addition to her novels El Penco and Ride On, See You (Cuidono Press), her poems and short stories have appeared in Art/Life, Cutbank, Poem, Rosebud, Quarterly West, The Flexible Persona, and The Ekphrastic Review. She lives with her family in Chicago, Illinois.