Lucille Lang Day

Lucille Lang Day's latest book is Poetry and Science: Writing Our Way to Discovery. She is also a coeditor of Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California and Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California, as well as the author of a memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story; two children's books, Chain Letter and The Rainbow Zoo; and eleven poetry collections. Her poetry books include Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place; Becoming an Ancestor; The Curvature of Blue; Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems, winner of the 2014 Blue Light Poetry Prize; Infinities; Wild One; Fire in the Garden; and Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope, which received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature. She has also co-authored How to Encourage Girls in Math and Science and edited SEEK: Science Exploration, Excitement, and Knowledge. She received her M.A. in English and M.F.A. in creative writing at San Francisco State University, and her B.A. in biological sciences, M.A. in zoology, and Ph.D. in science/mathematics education at the University of California, Berkeley. The founder and director of a small press, Scarlet Tanager Books, she lives in Oakland, California. Day is of Wampanoag, British, and Swiss/German descent.