Glenny Brock

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Glenny Brock

Glenera Louise "Glenny" Brock (born December 31, 1976 in Birmingham) is a writer and former editor for WELD and Birmingham Weekly.

Brock, the daughter of Jon and Nancy Horn Brock, grew up in Birmingham's West End. Her mother died in a car wreck when Glenny was 8 years old.

Brock graduated from John Carroll Catholic High School in 1995. She completed her undergraduate degree at Birmingham-Southern College in 1999. While there she worked for editor Kyle Whitmire on the campus paper, the Hilltop News. After graduating she freelanced, contributing to the Birmingham Weekly among other outlets. In December 2000 she joined the staff full time and was promoted to editor in August 2002. Brock completed a master of fine arts in creative writing from Louisville, Kentucky's Spalding University in 2007.

As editor, Brock recruited Whitmire to work for her, resulting in "War on Dumb", an award-winning political column that became a hallmark of the alternative weekly. She and publisher Chuck Leishman "mutually agreed" to end her tenure with the paper in March 2010. The "WELD" publication, launched in 2011, featured Whitmire's The Second Front, a continuation of his "War on Dumb'. Brock resigned from WELD In May 2012.

Brock has also worked as a copy editor at Luckie & Co. and contributed work to The New York Times, Architectural Record and Salon. She taught English at Birmingham-Southern. She founded the Friends of the Lyric Theatre and was on staff with Birmingham Landmarks as a volunteer coordinator for eight years. She later collaborated with the Holland Project to restore the Lincoln Theatre in Bessemer.

Preceded by:
Darin Powell 		Editor of Birmingham Weekly
2002–2010 		Succeeded by:
Jesse Chambers
Preceded by:
none 		Editor of Weld
2011–2012 		Succeeded by:
Jesse Chambers

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