Glenis is a Cave Canem Fellow, a North Carolina Literary Fellowship Recipient, and a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist. Redmond is the Poet-in-Residence at The State Theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey and the Peace Center for the Performing Arts in Greenville, South Carolina. During February 2016, at the request of U.S. State Department for their Speaker's Bureau, Glenis traveled to Muscat, Oman, to teach a series of poetry workshops and perform poetry for Black History Month. Glenis is a poetic fire-starter: She founded the first Greenville Poetry Slamat Wittershin's Bookstore Then, at the Village Café.She took the first all-female team to the National Poetry Slam in Middletown, Connecticut. Glenis made it to the finals as Individual. She came in 4th place in Nationals that year. In the 1990's she was a Southern Fried Poetry Slam Individual Champion twice and also placed in the top ten of the National Poetry Slam. She was one of the original founders of WordSlam, the youth slam movement in Asheville, NC that began in 2007. 