Get to know more about Diana Glyer

Random Facts

• I competed in the rodeo when I was in high school, and I earned ribbons in bulldogging and barrel racing.

• I am a first-generation American, and I’m the first in my family to get a college degree.

• I love dark roast coffee with cinnamon, strong and black.

• I also love peppermint tea.

• I love books and crave bookstores.

• I collect pine cones.

• I’m a fast reader and a really slow writer.

• I think that asking someone to name their favorite book is cruel and unfair.

• My definition of a good day is when you wake up excited by what you get to do that day and go to bed at night convinced that what you did that day mattered.

• I was traumatized by a telephone when I was a kid, and I still avoid them.

• I currently deadlift 105 pounds, but I’m working on it.

• My favorite poets are Mary Oliver, Malcolm Guite, Billy Collins, and the lesser-known poems of e. e. cummings.

• Mac, not PC.

• Star Trek AND Star Wars.

• The tenth Doctor.

• I love love love musicals (Hamilton, anyone?).

• But I don’t like Disneyland.

• Or water: I really don’t like water. Beaches, lakes, swimming pools. I do not like water.

• I do love the mountains, though: I love forests and love hikes.

• One of my favorite places on earth is Joshua Tree.

• One of my favorite albums on earth is Joshua Tree.

• I worked as a journalist and wrote for CCM and MusicLine.

• P.S. I also interviewed Stryper (went to church with Oz and Michael) and Steve Taylor, as well as Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Matthew West, Pillar, and many more.