Glen R. Stansfield grew up in the Pennines of Lancashire and was a qualified aircraft maintenance engineer for fifty years.

He started writing fiction at junior school but didn’t take it up seriously again until 2011.
 
His work took him to Bahrain in 2014 where he continued his writing, joining the Bahrain Writers’ Circle shortly after his arrival. He ran the BWC’s creative writing workshop for two years, and a novel writing course. He is still an active member of the group.
 
He self-published his debut novel, Fishing for Stones in 2015, followed by Harry in 2016. A third novel, Out of Darknesswas released in 2024 and was long listed for the Page Turner Awards.
 
While in Bahrain he contributed to several local publications with travel features, op-eds, and an eighty-two-week cookery column, Around the World in Eighty Dishes, which resulted in the publication of a cookbook of the same name in 2018. He also wrote an expat guide to Bahrain for one of the expat communities online.
 
A short story, Footnote was selected for inclusion in the CWA Middle East anthology, Arabian Noir in 2024
 
He now lives in Dumfries and Galloway with his wife Jess.