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Lucille Lang Day is the author of seven full-length poetry collections, four poetry chapbooks, two children's books, and a memoir. She has also edited the anthology Poetry and Science: Writing Our Way to Discovery and coedited Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California and Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California. Her many honors include the Blue Light Poetry Prize, two Josephine Miles - PEN Oakland Literary Awards, and eleven Pushcart Prize nominations. Her first poetry collection, Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope, was selected by Robert Pinsky, David Littlejohn, and Michael Rubin for the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature, and her memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story, was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in creative nonfiction. Her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in more than 200 magazines and anthologies, such as The Cincinnati Review, The Hudson Review, River Styx, The Threepenny Review, Scientific American, ZYZZYVA, and Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology. The founder and publisher of a small press, Scarlet Tanager Books, she received her MA in English and MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University, and her BA in biological sciences, MA in zoology, and PhD in science/mathematics education at the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Oakland, California.https://lucillelangday.com
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