Jean Day

Discipline: Poetry

Based In: Berkeley, CA

Year at Millay: 2008

Awards/Honors: Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2002); Grant Recipient, Creative Writing Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC (2001).

Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Day

Jean Day is a poet and editor. Her books include Triumph of Life (Insurance), Daydream (Litmus), Enthusiasm (Adventures in Poetry), The Literal World (Atelos), The I and the You (Poets & Poets), A Young Recruit (Roof), and Flat Birds (Gaz), as well as several chapbooks. Recent poems can be seen in Brooklyn RailChicago ReviewThe DelineatorAcross the MarginOpen HouseBreather, and Jongler (French). She lives in Berkeley, where she works as managing editor of Representations, a scholarly humanities journal, and does advocacy work for members of the University Professional and Technical Employees Union (UPTE). The recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the George A. and Eliza Howard Gardner Foundation, and the Fund for Poetry, Day has also benefited from the generous support of Millay Arts, where Late Human (UDP, 2021) was completed.