Faculty

Diane Glancy

Professor of English

M.F.A. University of Iowa, 1988
M.A. University of Central Oklahoma, 1983
B.A. University of Missouri, 1964

Diane Glancy's poetry, scripts, essays, and fiction have earned her numerous literary prizes, including an American Book Award, the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, the Native American Prose Award and a Sundance Screenwriting Fellowship. As artist in residence for the State Arts Council of Oklahoma she traveled the state for a decade, teaching the skills of writing, oral communication and critical thinking. Her growing reputation as a writer opened the door to a fellowship at the prestigious University of Iowa Writers Workshop, then to a faculty position at Macalester College.

Glancy (M.F.A., University of Iowa; M.A. English, University of Central Oklahoma; B.A. English Literature, University of Missouri) also taught in the Bread Loaf School of English M.A. program on the campus of the Native American Preparatory School in Rowe, New Mexico, in 1999. She was the 1998 Edlestein-Keller Minnesota Writer of Distinction, University of Minnesota, where she taught Topics in Advanced Poetry. She was also the Native American Inroads Mentor at The Loft in Minneapolis where she taught Creative Nonfiction in 1997.

In June 2004, Professor Glancy was one of five playwrights chosen for a Native Voices Workshop at Occidental College / Autry National Museum in Los Angeles to develop a script for her novel, Stone Heart. After the workshop, they chose three out of the five to present November 12-14 at the Autry. Stone Heart was one of the plays.

Areas of Study

• Native American Literature
• Creative Writing including scriptwriting and nature writing

Past Courses at Macalester

• Native American Literature
• Native American Literature: Nonfiction, Novel, Documentary and Film
• College Writing
• Introduction to Creative Writing
• Poetry Writing Workshop
• Fiction Writing Workshop
• Scriptwriting
• Environmental Writing
• Creative Nonfiction Workshop
• Writing as Visual / Oral (Landscape) Meshing (Interim course)

Awards and Honors

• National Endowment for the Arts, 1990, 2003
• Juniper Poetry Prize, 2003
• Distinguished Alumna Award, University of Missouri, 2003
• Cherokee Medal of Honor, Cherokee Honor Society, Tahlequah, OK, 2001
• Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award, Macalester College, 2001
• Many Voices Playwriting Fellowship, Playwrights' Center, Minneapolis, 2001, 1995
• McKnight Artist Fellowship, Loft Award of Distinction for Creative Prose, 1999
• Sundance Screenwriting Fellowship, U.C.L.A., 1998
• Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers, Prose - Playwriting Award, 1997
• Minnesota Humanities Commission Grant, 1997
• Career Initiative Grant, 1996, The Loft, Minneapolis
• Lannan Foundation Fellowship, Provincetown Art Center Residency, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1995
• Jerome Travel Grant, 1995, 1990
• Five Civilized Tribes Playwriting Laureate Prize, 1994-1996, 1988-1990, 1984-1986
• Blandin Private College Foundation Grants, 1994, 1991, 1990
• Emily Dickinson Poetry Prize, Poetry Society of America, 1993
• Wallace Faculty Travel Grant, Macalester College, 1993
• Minnesota State Arts Board, 1990
• Diverse Visions Grant, Intermedia Arts Minnesota, 1990
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute Newberry Library, Chicago, 1990
• Creative NonFiction Fellowship, The Loft, Minneapolis, 1990
• Borderlands Theater Play Festival Award, Tucson, 1990
• Jones Commission, Playwright's Center, Minneapolis, 1989
• Frances C. Allen Fellowship, D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, Newberry Library, Chicago, 1988
• Aspen Theater Chamberlain Prize, 1988
• Edwin Piper Fellowship, University of Iowa, 1988
• Equal Opportunity Fellowship, University of Iowa, 1987-88
• Iowa Woman Poetry Prize, 1987
• Oklahoma Theater Association Award, 1987
• Tulsa Arts and Humanities Council Grant, 1983

Recent Publications

• In-Between Places (essays) (University of Arizona Press, February 2005)
• Rooms: New and Selected Poems (Salt Publishing, EarthWorks, Cambridge, England, forthcoming 2005 or 2006)
• Primer of the Obsolete (University of Massachusetts Press, 2004)
• The Shadow's Horse (University of Arizona Press, 2003)
• Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea (Overlook Press, 2003)
• American Gypsy: Six Native American Plays (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series, University of Oklahoma Press, 2002)
• Designs of the Night Sky (Native American Narratives Series, University of Nebraska Press, 2002)
• The Mask Maker (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series, University of Oklahoma Press, 2002)
• The Man Who Heard the Land (Minnesota Historical Press, 2001)
• The Closets of Heaven (novella) (Chax Press, 1999)
• Flutie (Moyer Bell, 1998)
• Pushing the Bear, a novel of the Trail of Tears (Harcourt Brace, New York, 1996; Harvest Paperback, 1998)

Links

• Personal Web Site