Random Facts

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.