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Diane Hall Glancy - Renowned Writer is Guest Speaker

Presented by Heart River Writers' Circle at Beck Auditorium at Dickinson State University

March 2, 2010

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Highly-acclaimed author Diane Glancy will be a guest speaker for the Heart River Writers Tuesday, March 2 at 7:00 p.m.  Other opportunities to hear Glancy include a Women’s Voices luncheon on Tuesday, March 3 and a panel discussion about culture and storytelling with Joseph Marshall during Native Voices the evening of March 3.

Diane Hall Glancy, Cherokee poet, fiction writer, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter, was the winner of the 2009 Expressive Arts Grant at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. and the winner of the 2007 Multi-Arts Production Grant awarded by Creative Capital Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Some of her many other noted awards include the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Sundance Screenwriting Fellowship, the Lannan Foundation Fellowship, the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Juniper Prize, the Stevens Poetry Prize, and the Emily Dickinson Poetry Prize. In 2001 Diane Glancy was awarded the Cherokee Medal of Honor by the Cherokee Honor Society in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, from Cherokee and German-English parents, Diane Glancy, who received her M.F.A. in 1988 from the University of Iowa, was a Professor of English at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, until her retirement in 2009.

Her poetry, novels, short stories, plays, essays, and films center on the Native American experience. Glancy states that she examines and preserves her “displaced part-Indian, part-white, mixed-message heritage.” In her most recent book of eleven books of poetry, Asylum in the Grasslands, Glancy “explores the history of loss” of the Cherokee community. Her last three novels trace the history of three Native women. Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea, the first novel in this series, was written as a result of her stays in the summers of 2000-2001 near the Missouri in North Dakota. The Reason for Crows and Pushing the Bear are the other two novels in the series. Presently Glancy is working on a film The Dome of Heaven, an adaptation of Flutie, one of her novels.