Lucille Lang Day has published eleven poetry collections and chapbooks, including Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place and Becoming an Ancestor. She is a coeditor of Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California and Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, as well as the author of two children's books, Chain Letter and The Rainbow Zoo, and a memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story. Her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, and her many honors include the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature, the Blue Light Poetry Prize, two PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Awards, and eleven Pushcart nominations. She received her BA in biological sciences, MA in zoology, and PhD in science/mathematics education at the University of California, Berkeley, and her MA in English and MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University. She is of British, Swiss/German, and Wampanoag descent.
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