Jane Ellen Glasser's poetry has been published in numerous journals, such as The Hudson Review, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Georgia Review. Glasser co-founded the nonprofit arts organization and journal New Virginia Review. She has delivered various presentations and workshops to audiences as diverse as students in the Poet-in-the-Schools Program and jail inmates. She won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry for Light Persists (2005) and the Poetica Publishing Chapbook Contest for The Long Life (2011). Cracks is her sixth poetry collection.