Diane Glancy

(Helen) Diane Glancy was born in 1941 in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a Cherokee poet, author and playwright. Glancy was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (English literature) from the University of Missouri in 1964, then later continued her education at the University of Central Oklahoma, earning her a Masters degree in English in 1983.^{[citation needed]} In 1988, she was awarded a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa.^{[citation needed]} Glancy is an English professor and began teaching in 1989 at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, teaching Native American literature and creative writing courses.^{[citation needed]}

Personal

Glancy's descent is Cherokee and English-German.^{[citation needed]} She is a divorced mother of two, son David and daughter Jennifer, and a grandmother as well.^{[citation needed]}

Awards

Glancy won numerous awards for her work in poetry, historical non-fiction and as a playwright. The awards are as follows:^{[citation needed]}

• 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; and
• Oklahoma Book Award.

Online writings

A Trellis in the Snow (poem)

Novels and prose works

• Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea, Overlook Press (2003)
• The Cold-and-Hunger Dance, U Nebraska Press (2002)
• Designs of the Night Sky, U Nebraska Press (2002)
• The Mask Maker: A Novel, U Oklahoma Press (2002)
• The Man Who Heard the Land, Minnesota Historical Society Press (2001)
• David: Taken from the New International Version of the Bible, IBS Publishing (2000)
• Fuller Man, Moyer Bell Ltd. (1999)
• The Voice that was in Travel, U Oklahoma Press (1999)
• Flutie, Moyer Bell (1998)
• Pushing the Bear, Harcourt Brace (1996)
• The Closets of Heaven, Chax Press (1996)
• Monkey Secret, TriQuarterly Books (1995)
• The West Pole, Minnesota Center for Book Arts (1994)
• Claiming Breath, U Nebraska Press (1992)
• Trigger Dance, Fiction Collective Two (1990)
• One Age in a Dream, Milkweed Editions (1986)
• The Man Who Owns a Buffalo Trap, Central States University (1983)
• The Woolslayer, Hadassah Press (1982)
• Drystalks of the Moon, Hadassah Press (1981)
• Traveling On, MyrtleWood Press (1980)

Poetry collections

• Primer of the Obsolete, U Massachusetts Press (2004)
• The Shadow’s Horse, U Arizona Press (2003)
• The Stones for a Pillow, National Federation of State Poetry Societies Press (2001)
• The Relief of America, Tia Chucha Press (2000)
• (Ado)Ration, Chax Press (1999)
• Closets of Heaven, Chax Press (1999)
• Asylum in the Grasslands, Moyer Bell (1998)
• Boom Town, Black Hat Press (1997)
• Coyote’s Quodlibet, Chax Press (1995)
• West Pole, Minnesota Center For Book Arts (1997)
• The Only Piece of Furniture in the House, Moyer Bell (1996)
• Red Moon Walking Woman, Just Buffalo Literary Center (1995)
• Lone Dog’s Winter Count, West End Press (1991)
• Iron Woman, New Rivers Press (1990)
• Offering: Poetry and Prose, Holy Cow! Press (1988)
• Brown Wolf Leaves the Res, Blue Cloud Quarterly (1984)
• House on Terwilliger. House on Twenty-Fourth Street, Hadassah Press (1982)
• Red Deer, MyrtleWood Press (1982)
• What do People do West of the Mississippi?, MyrtleWood Press (1982)
• The Way I Like to See a Softball Mitt, Hadassah Press (1981)

Plays

• The Woman Who Was a Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance (1995)
• War Cries: A Collection of Plays, Holy Cow Press (1997)
• American Gypsy: Six Native American Plays, U Oklahoma Press (2002)
• Cargo, Alexander Street Press (2006)
• The Collector of a Three-Cornered Stamp, Alexander Street Press (2006)
• The Conversion of Inversion, Alexander Street Press (2006)
• The Distant Cry of Betelgeuse, Alexander Street Press (2006)
• Man Red, Alexander Street Press (2006)
• The Words of My Roaring,Alexander Street Press (2006)

Non-fiction

• Freeing the First Amendment: Critical Perspectives on Freedom of Expression, New York U Press (1995)
• Naming Myself: Writings on Identity, Macalester College (1995)

Books about Diane Glancy

• The Salt Companion to Diane Glancy, ed. James Mackay. Cambridge: Salt, 2009. [1].

See also

• List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
• Native American Studies

External links

• Official Diane Glancy site
• Diane Glancy's entry at the Internet Public library
• Diane Glancy's entry at Voices from the Gaps
• Diane Glancy's page at Macalester College
• Interview and readings at Michigan U

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Name	Glancy, Diane
Alternative names	Glancy, Helen Diane (full name)
Short description	Poet, author, playwright
Date of birth	1941
Place of birth	Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Date of death
Place of death