Glenn Schiffman is co-founder of Western Gate Roots and Wings, a non-profit counseling program for at-risk youth, uninitiated adult men, and veterans suffering with “Soldier’s Heart” which counsels using indigenous ceremonial settings in collaboration with Native Elders. His novel The Way I Was Taught was a 2014 Eric Hoffer Fiction Award finalist and his short stories have appeared in Quill and Parchment, The Write Launch, and the anthology Returning Soldiers Speak.