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.
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