(Helen) Diane Glancy (March 18, 1941) is an American poet, author, and playwright.

Life and career

Glancy was born in

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, to a

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(non-enrolled) father, Lewis H. Hall, and an English-German-American mother. At a young age, she had a hard time with determining her identity because of how her Indian lifestyle did not relate to what she was learning in school. Glancy decided to reclaim her Cherokee descent and found it easy to express in her poetry. She received her

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(

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) from the

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in 1964, then later continued her education at the

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, earning a

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in English in 1983.Handt, Melissa; Koch, Christopher; Ziemann, Shaundra. (2004). Diane Glancy. Voices from the Gaps. Retrieved from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy, . In 1988, she received her

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from the

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. Glancy is an English professor and began teaching in 1989 at

Macalester College Macalester College () is a private liberal arts college in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Founded in 1874, Macalester is exclusively an undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 2,174 students in the fall of 2018 from 50 U.S. states, four U.S te ...

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, teaching Native American literature and

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courses. Glancy's literary works have been recognized and highlighted at Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series.

Awards

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; *

Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...

; * Capricorn Prize for Poetry; * Native American Prose Award; * Charles Nilon Fiction Award; *

Five Civilized Tribes The term Five Civilized Tribes was applied by European Americans in the colonial and early federal period in the history of the United States to the five major Native American nations in the Southeast—the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek ...

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, issued by the Cherokee Honor Society, a husband-and-wife team
North American Indian Prose Award

Works

Novels and prose works

*''Mary, Queen of Bees'', Wipf & Stock (2017) *''No Word for the Sea: A Novel of Alzheimer's'', Wipf & Stock (2017) *''One Of Us'', Wipf & Stock (2015) *''Ironic Witness'', Wipf & Stock (2015) *''Uprising Of Goats'', Wipf & Stock (2014) *''Reason for the Crows'', U New York (2009) *''Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears,'' U Oklahoma Press: Norman (2009) *''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'',

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(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) *''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

*''Island of the Innocent: A Consideration of the Book of Job'', Turtle Point Press (2020) *''The Book of Bearings'', Cascade Books, Wipf & Stock (2019) *''It Was Over There By That Place'', The Atlas Review (2019) *''The Keyboard Letters'', The Poetry Society of Texas (2017) *''The Collector of Bodies: Concern for Syria and the Middle East'', Wipf & Stock (2016) *''Report to the Department of the Interior'', University of New Mexico Press (2015) *''It Was Then'', Mammoth Publications (2012) *''Stories of the Driven World'', Mammoth Publications (2010) *''Asylum in the Grasslands'', University of Arizona Press (2007) *''Rooms, New and Selected Poems'', Salt Publishing, EarthWorks Series (2005) *''Primer of the Obsolete'', University of Massachusetts Press (2004) *''The Shadow’s Horse'', University of Arizona Press (2003) *''In-Between Places'', University of Arizona Press (2001) *''The Stones for a Pillow'',

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Press (2001) *''The Relief of America'', Tia Chucha Press (2000) *''(Ado)Ration'', Chax Press (1999) *''The Closets of Heaven'', Chax Press (1999) *''Asylum in the Grasslands'', Moyer Bell (1998) *''Boom Town'', Black Hat Press (1997) *''Two Worlds Walking'', New Rivers Press (1996) *''Coyote’s Quodlibet'', Chax Press (1995) *''The 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) *''One Age in a Dream'', Milkweed Editions (1986) *''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) *''The Best Fancy Dancer the Pushmataha Pow Wow's Ever Seen'' (1996) *''War Cries: A Collection of Plays'', Holy Cow Press (1997) *''American Gypsy: Six Native American Plays'', U Oklahoma Press (2002) *''Cargo'',

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(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)

References

External links

*
Diane Glancy's page at Macalester College

Diane Glancy's page on NativeWiki.org
* Diane Glancy's entry at th
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* Interview and readings a

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