Glenna Luschei grew up in Iowa and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she started the poetry journal, Café Solo, in 1967. After she moved to California, she began publishing under the Solo Press imprint. She has served as chair of the Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers and won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship as well as a D. H. Lawrence Fellowship in New Mexico. She lives in Carpinteria, California.