Diana Pavlac Glyer is an internationally recognized speaker and teacher whose work always circles back to collaboration, creativity, and community. She is a professor in the Honors College at Azusa Pacific University in Southern California where she teaches literature, history, theology, and philosophy in an integrated Great Books curriculum.

Dr. Glyer is also an award-winning writer whose research focuses on C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Inklings. Her book The Company They Keep (2008) offers an in-depth account of Lewis and Tolkien and their writing process. It shows how encouragement, praise, criticism, and conflict shaped their fellowship and their books. In Bandersnatch (2015), she explains what we can learn about creativity, productivity, and collaboration from their example. 

She has also authored a series of Christian devotional books called Clay in the Potter’s Hands: Recognizing the Extraordinary Work of God in Your Ordinary, Everyday Life. A new edition of this book revised specifically for artists and students in ceramics classes is out now fom Square Halo Press. 

At present, she is collaborating with Abigail Dengler on a series of books designed to inspire writers step-by-step as they make their way from blank pages to finished manuscripts.