Andrew D. Glenn

Andrew D. Glenn grew up on a farm in Richland County, Ohio, where he helped both of his grandfathers in their woodworking shops. By the time he was a teen, working summers on a carpentry crew, he was well on his way to a life of woodworking. However, after college he took a detour as business director at a Christian high school near Boston, which led him back to woodworking via two years at North Bennet Street School. After graduating from NBSS, Andy briefly worked at Phil Lowe’s school, the Furniture Institute of Massachusetts, then as a live-in caretaker at NBSS. Two children later, the family moved to Maine, where he worked at a shipyard (grinding fiberglass, not making shavings), then to Kentucky, where Andy worked as the director of woodcraft in Berea College Student Craft’s Woodcraft Program for four years. Now Andy and his family have settled back in Waldoboro, Maine, where he builds chairs, makes custom furniture, teaches, and writes.