Poetry. Lucille Lang Day was born in Oakland, California, and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. In addition to poetry, she writes essays, short stories, and reviews. Her first poetry collection, Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope, received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature from the San Francisco Foundation. "Lucille Day's stunning language in FIRE IN THE GARDEN has the metaphorical precision and complexity of Sylvia Plath, coupled with a voluptuousness that is all her own. She is afire in a world where 'White flames dance'"-Judy Wells. FIRE IN THE GARDEN is a book of beauties and mutilations, erotic intimacies, distances and mysteries, seductive dreams and sardonic deflations of our common dreamlife. It runs hot, cold and shivery, and will keep surprising you with the 'taste of ash' on its lips"-Alicia Suskin Ostriker. Day's books INFINITIES and WILD ONE are also available from SPD.

Author Hometown: OAKLAND, CA USA



About the author: Lucille Lang Day is the author of five full-length poetry collections: THE CURVATURE OF BLUE (Cervena Barva, 2009), INFINITIES (Cedar Hill, 2002) WILD ONE (Scarlet Tanager, 2000), FIRE IN THE GARDEN (Mother's Hen, 1997), and Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope (Berkeley Poets' Workshop and Press, 1982), which received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award. She has also published three poetry chapbooks. Chain Letter, her children's book, was published by Heyday in 2005. She received her M.A. in English and M.F.A. in creative writing at San Francisco State University, and her M.A. in zoology and Ph.D. in science and mathematics education at the University of California at Berkeley.