Diane Glancy

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(Helen) Diane Glancy, a Cherokee poet, author and playwright, was born in 1941 in Kansas City, Missouri. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English literature at the University of Missouri in 1964, then later continued her education at the University of Central Oklahoma, earning her Masters degree in English in 1983. In 1988, she received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa. Glancy is currently an English professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, teaching Native American literature and creative writing courses. She began teaching there in 1989. Glancy is currently working towards retirement through a four-year-long sabbatical.

Glancy's descent is both Cherokee on her father's side and English-German on her mother's side. She is the divorced mother of two, son David and daughter Jennifer, and a grandmother as well.

Glancy has won numerous awards for her work in poetry, historical non-fiction and playwrights. These awards include:

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

Contents

[edit] Online writings

A Trellis in the Snow (poem)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Plays

  • 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)

[edit] 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)

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