Born to Jamaican parents in The Bronx, New York, Glave grew up there and in Kingston, Jamaica.
He is a member of the English faculty at Binghamton University, where he teaches creative writing and courses on Caribbean, African-American, black British, postcolonial, and L.G.B.T./queer literatures, among other topics.
[2] A two-time New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, Glave's early short story, "The Final Inning", originally published in The Kenyon Review, won an O. Henry Award in 1997 while Glave was a graduate student at Brown University.
[4] Glave earned a second Lambda Literary Award in 2009 for his groundbreaking anthology, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (Duke University Press, 2008).
The Torturer's Wife, published by City Lights in 2008, was shortlisted and named a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Stonewall Book Award, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and the Lambda Literary Award.