lenScott Thomas Copper is the author of Angels Dance on the Head of a Pin.                                         He taught English, Creative Writing, Journalism, Drama, and Philosophy at the                                       Milwaukee High School of the Arts (MHSA), where he advised the student poetry                                   club, yearbook, and newspaper. He also co-founded the MPS Charter School:                                         Downtown Institute of Arts and Letters (DIAL), working closely with special needs students and incarcerated youth. He has extensive experience in writing for the stage, as well as directing, acting, singing, dancing, costuming, light design, and set construction. For more than 15 years, he was an award-winning movie theater manager in southeast Wisconsin. He received the top writing prize in an early statewide 48-Hour Movie Competition, and his radio drama was produced on Wisconsin Public Radio. He also lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota; and in La Crosse, Fifield, Galesville, Coon Valley, and Racine, Wisconsin. 

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Glen works as a Match Support Specialist for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee and has been a Big Brother to three young men. He also harvested maple sap at the Quaker land preserve, where he taught himself how to make maple syrup, and he continues making pastoral visits to prisoners in two state prisons with a Quaker group. In addition, he has worked as a professional chef, wedding portrait artist, and commercial photographer. People love his signature chocolate chip cookies and apple/custard pie topped with streusel, which are much requested. For years, he volunteered as a scuba diver, cleaning Discovery World’s giant fish tanks, and he received a Volunteer of the Year Award from the Milwaukee Film Festival.

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He was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to Japan and served as one of three supervisors on the tall ship Denis Sullivan, overseeing 16 high school students sailing on a voyage to the Bahamas. He has also headed four trips with about 20 students each to New York City and the prestigious Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. He has traveled to more than 23 countries and at least 45 U.S. states. With his wife, Karen, they have hosted 22 international students, three teachers, and three American teen boys. He is also president of the Milwaukee Bike Collective.

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Glen and Karen live in Milwaukee with a smart little dog and a blind black cat. In the spring, they enjoy hundreds of aconites, snowdrops, tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths, along with cherry and peach trees in their front yard.