Diane Glancy is professor emeritus at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she taught Native American Literature and Creative Writing. She was the 2008-09 Visiting Richard Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College. Glancy was awarded a 2003 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the 2003 Juniper Poetry Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press for PRIMER OF THE OBSOLETE. Her 2009 books are THE REASON FOR CROWS, a novel of Kateri Tekakwitha, SUNY Press, and PUSHING THE BEAR, After the Trail of Tears, University of Oklahoma Press.

(Photograph by Michael Conway)

In 2007, Arizona published a collection of poems, ASYLUM IN THE GRASSLANDS. Her 2005 books are ROOMS: New and Selected Poems, Salt Publishers, IN-BETWEEN PLACES, essays, University of Arizona Press, and THE DANCE PARTNER, Stories of the Ghost Dance, Michigan State University Press. Glancy's novels include STONE HEART: a novel of Sacajawea, Overlook Press, THE MAN WHO HEARD THE LAND, Minnesota Historical Society Press, DESIGNS OF THE NIGHT SKY, University of Nebraska Press, and PUSHING THE BEAR, the 1838-39 Cherokee Trail of Tears, Harcourt Brace.

She received a 2009 Expressive Arts Grant from the Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. to write a play on the history of Indian education. Glancy is of German / English and Cherokee heritage.