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Diane Glancy
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Photo by Mary Jane Zapp
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Helen Diane Hall
March 18, 1941 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
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| Other names | (Helen) Diane Glancy |
| Education | University of Missouri (BA) University of Central Oklahoma University of Iowa (MFA) |
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| Employer | Macalester College |
| Known for | writing |
| Spouse(s) | Dwane Glancy (1964–1975) |
| Children | David Glancy and Jennifer Glancy |
| Awards | American Book Award, Pushcart Prize, Capricorn Prize for Poetry, Native American Prose Award, Charles Nilon Fiction Award, Five Civilized Tribes Playwrighting Prize, North American Indian Prose Award, The Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, Oklahoma Book Award. |
Diane Glancy, born on March 18, 1941, is a talented American writer. She is known for her poetry, books, and plays.
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Life and Career
Diane Glancy was born in Kansas City, Missouri. When she was young, she sometimes felt unsure about her identity. This was because her daily life felt different from what she learned in school. Diane decided to connect with her Cherokee heritage. She found that writing poetry was a great way to express this part of herself.
She went to the University of Missouri and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1964. Later, she continued her studies at the University of Central Oklahoma. There, she earned a Master's degree in English in 1983. In 1988, she received another advanced degree, a Master of Fine Arts, from the University of Iowa.
Diane Glancy became an English professor. In 1989, she started teaching at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. She taught classes about Native American literature and creative writing. Her books and poems have been recognized by many, including at Michigan State University.
Awards and Recognition
Diane Glancy has won many important awards for her writing. These awards show how much her work is valued.
- American Book Award
- Pushcart Prize
- Capricorn Prize for Poetry
- Native American Prose Award
- Charles Nilon Fiction Award
- Five Civilized Tribes Playwriting Prize
- North American Indian Prose Award
- The Minnesota Book Award in Poetry
- Oklahoma Book Award
- Writer of the Year for Screenplays (2003-2004)
- Juniper Poetry Prize
- Cherokee Medal of Honor (from the Cherokee Honor Society)
Works
Diane Glancy has written many different types of creative works. She has published novels, poetry, and plays.
Novels and Prose Works
- Mary, Queen of Bees (2017)
- No Word for the Sea: A Novel of Alzheimer's (2017)
- One Of Us (2015)
- Ironic Witness (2015)
- Uprising Of Goats (2014)
- Reason for the Crows (2009)
- Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears (2009)
- Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea (2003)
- The Cold-and-Hunger Dance (2002)
- Designs of the Night Sky (2002)
- The Mask Maker: A Novel (2002)
- The Man Who Heard the Land (2001)
- David: Taken from the New International Version of the Bible (2000)
- Fuller Man (1999)
- The Voice that was in Travel (1999)
- Flutie (1998)
- Pushing the Bear (1996)
- Monkey Secret (1995)
- Claiming Breath (1992)
- Trigger Dance (1990)
Poetry Collections
- Island of the Innocent: A Consideration of the Book of Job (2020)
- The Book of Bearings (2019)
- It Was Over There By That Place (2019)
- The Keyboard Letters (2017)
- The Collector of Bodies: Concern for Syria and the Middle East (2016)
- Report to the Department of the Interior (2015)
- It Was Then (2012)
- Stories of the Driven World (2010)
- Asylum in the Grasslands (2007)
- Rooms, New and Selected Poems (2005)
- Primer of the Obsolete (2004)
- The Shadow’s Horse (2003)
- In-Between Places (2001)
- The Stones for a Pillow (2001)
- The Relief of America (2000)
- (Ado)Ration (1999)
- The Closets of Heaven (1999)
- Asylum in the Grasslands (1998)
- Boom Town (1997)
- Two Worlds Walking (1996)
- Coyote’s Quodlibet (1995)
- The West Pole (1997)
- The Only Piece of Furniture in the House (1996)
- Red Moon Walking Woman (1995)
- Lone Dog’s Winter Count (1991)
- Iron Woman (1990)
- Offering: Poetry and Prose (1988)
- One Age in a Dream (1986)
- Brown Wolf Leaves the Res (1984)
- House on Terwilliger. House on Twenty-Fourth Street (1982)
- Red Deer (1982)
- What do People do West of the Mississippi? (1982)
- The Way I Like to See a Softball Mitt (1981)
Plays
- The Woman Who Was a Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance (1995)
- The Best Fancy Dancer the Pushmataha Pow Wow's Ever Seen (1996)
- War Cries: A Collection of Plays (1997)
- American Gypsy: Six Native American Plays (2002)
- Cargo (2006)
- The Collector of a Three-Cornered Stamp (2006)
- The Conversion of Inversion (2006)
- The Distant Cry of Betelgeuse (2006)
- Man Red (2006)
- The Words of My Roaring (2006)
Non-fiction
- Freeing the First Amendment: Critical Perspectives on Freedom of Expression (1995)
- Naming Myself: Writings on Identity (1995)
See also
- Native American studies
