Diane Glancy is a longtime, award-winning writer publishing many books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. She often mixes genres in hybrid works of their own making. She is known for her innovative language and prose style, her explorations of Native American and Christian themes, and her interests in history, faith, and place.
In 2018 Publisher’s Weekly named her work Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears (Harcourt, 1996) as one of its ten essential Native American novels.
Glancy is professor emerita at Macalester College, where she taught Native American literature and creative writing. She has held visiting professorships at Kenyon College and Azusa Pacific University. She has taught in the low residency M.F.A. program at Carlow University, and she facilitated an online cohort in experimental writing at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
Glancy’s newest work is Lazarus: The Intended Writings and the Promise of Forever, forthcoming from Turtle Point Press in February 2027. This hybrid biography is a composite of the voices of the Biblical Lazarus who died and was brought back from the dead, his sisters, Mary and Martha, and Glancy’s own words about the writing process. It opens with the description of a baguette, flying to Milwaukee, and later, driving through the mountains of Virginia on a longer trip than necessary because of GPS directions while in the middle of the writing process. What was it like, Lazarus? What did you find there?
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