Centennial Event to feature Native American Writer Diane Glancy

On September 27, 2007, Native American author Diane Glancy will give a reading at the Student Union, Room 412, Case Study 2 at 3:30PM.

Glancy is the author of nine novels,  five short story collections, four essay collections,  fourteen poetry collections and several dramas. Her work has earner her numerous literary prizes, including an American Book Award, a Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, a Native American Prose Award, and a Sundance Screenwriting Fellowship.

Diane Glancy was a professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, for 17 years where she taught Native American Literature and Creative Writing.  Her newest collection of poetry, Asylum in the Grasslands, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2007.  In 2005, she published three books: Rooms, New and Selected Poems, Salt Publishers, In-between Places, essays, the University of Arizona Press, and The Dance Partner, Stories of the Ghost Dance, Michigan State University Press.  She will hold the Richard Thomas Chair at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, in the spring semesters of 2008-09.  Glancy has an MFA from the University of Iowa.  She is of English/German and Cherokee heritage.  She began teaching as an Aritst-in-Residence for the State Arts Council of Oklahoma.

The event is sponsored by the Norris Foundation and presented by the College of Arts and Sciences and the English Department.

For more information, please contact Dr. Lindsey Smith at lindsey.c.smith@okstate.edu

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