DIANE GLANCY

Diane Glancy is a professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she has taught Native American Literature and Creative Writing. She currently is on a four-year sabbatical/ early retirement program. She will hold the Richard Thomas Chair at Kenyon College in the spring semesters of 2008 and 2009. She received her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. Glancy has published two books of plays, American Gypsy ( University of Oklahoma Press, 2002), and War Cries (Holy Cow! 1998). A group of shorter plays, The Sum of Winter, and an introduction to factional theater appear online at www.alexanderstreet.com. Her plays also appear in various anthologies. Diane Glancy’s last play, Stone Heart: Everybody Loves a Journey West, the story of Sacajawea accompanying the 1804-06 Lewis & Clark expedition, was produced in 2006 at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles and traveled to the Smithsonian Museum of the Native American in NYC and the National Museum of the American Indian on the Mall in Washington, D.C.  Salvage was read as part of The Public Theater's Native Theater Festival, in December, 2007. Glancy has also published novels, short stories, essays, and poetry. She received the Native American Prose Award, an American Book Award, a Minnesota Book Award and an Oklahoma Book Award. She was the recipient of a 2003 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She was awarded the 2002 Cherokee Medal of Honor and the Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award from Macalester College. Other awards include a 2005 Voice & Visions Summer Theatre Fellowship at Bard College; Many Voices Playwriting Fellowship at The Playwrights' Center, Minneapolis; the Five Civilized Tribes Playwriting Laureate Prize, Muskogee, Oklahoma; and a 1998 Sundance Native American Screenwriting Fellowship.