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Diane Glancy is professor emerita at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Native Voices at the Autry in Los Angeles has produced four of her plays: The Bird House (2013), Salvage (2009), Stone Heart (2006), and Jump Kiss (2002). The Origin of Law won the 2013 Native Voices at the Autry Short Play Festival. Glancy also has been a facilitator with Native Voices in workshops for Native playwrights at the Alaska Native Heritage Museum in Anchorage. Currently, she teaches a cohort on experimental poetry at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.

Oklahoma City Theatre Company has included three of her plays in their Native American New Play Festival, Pushing the Bear (2017), Lloyd and Hallah (2016), and a production of Salvage (2012). Salvage was also produced in the Origins Festival, Riverside Studio, London, England, May 9-16, 2009, and had a reading at the Native American Festival Reading, Public Theater, New York City, December 6, 2007

Glancy was part of Our Civil War Project: Monologues from 25 Playwrights, at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. in 2014. She has had readings at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York City, the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, The Mall, Washington, D.C., Two Worlds Theater Annual Staged Reading Festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico, The Colony, Missoula, Montana, Mixed Phoenix Theater Group, American Indian Community House, New York City, and Global Voices: Spring Staged Readings, Emory University, Atlanta.

Her books include A Line of Driftwood, the Ada Blackjack Story, Home Is the Road, Wandering the Land, Shaping the Spirit, and Psalm to Whom(e). She has a chapter, “Outsider Indian” in the 2024 anthology, Decentered Playwriting, edited by Carolyn Dunn, Eric Holmes and Les Hunter, Routledge. “Native Dramatic Theory in a Bird House,” a chapter on Native theater, is in Twenty-first Century Perspectives on Indigenous Studies, Native North America in (Trans)Motion, edited by Birgit Dawes, Karsten Fitz, and Sabine Meyer, Routledge, 2015. She received a 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award from Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, an Expressive Arts Grant from the National Museum of the American Indian, a Minnesota Book Award, an Oklahoma Book Award, and an American Book Award.