Exploring America in Change

“Exploring America in Change investigates the post September 11 world with an artistic lens. The last of a three part serles, this event focuses on communities often overlooked by the media, elected officials and mainstream America. Diane Glancy and Luisa Igloria represent “”other”” in many ways, as women, as writers.

Diane Glancy was born in 1941 in Kansas City, Missouri, of a Cherokee father and an English/ German mother. She is a poet, fiction writer, playvvright and essayist and an Associate Professor at Macalaster College in Minnesota where she teaches Native American Literature and Creative Writing. Her books include, The Relief of America (Tia Chucha Press, 2000), Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajavvea (Overlook Press, 2003), and The Shadow’s Horse (University of Arizona Press, 2003). Glancy’s work articulates the edge between two disparate cultures and the challenges of living in both.

Luisa Igloria is a prolific poet, fiction writer and essayist. She previously published five books under the name Maria Luisa A. Carino: Cordiilera Tales (New Day 1990), Cartography (Anvil 1992), Encanto (Anvil,1994), In the Garden of the Three Islands (Moyer Bell/Asphodel,1995) and Blood Sacrifice (University of the Philippines Press, 1997). Her most recent book, Songs for the Beginning of the Millennium (Manila, Philippines, 1999), is published under her maiden name Maria Luisa B. Aguilar. Originaily from Baguio in the Philippines, Luisa Igloria is in search of the words that sponsor life.