Meg Day

Poet

Raleigh, NC
North Carolina US

Author's Bio

Meg Day is the 2015-2016 recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a 2013 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street 2014), winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Prize and the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award, & a finalist for the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University. Day is Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing in the MFA program at NC State. www.megday.com

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master (Pleiades Press, 2019)
Book:
Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street Press, 2014)
Chapbooks:
We Can't Read This (Gazing Grain Press, 2013)
,
When All You Have Is A Hammer (Gertrude Press, 2013)
Prizes won: 

2015-16 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship 2015 Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Disabled, Feminist, LGBTQ, White
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, At Risk Youth, Disability, Illness/Wellness, Incarcerated individuals, LGBTQ, Mental Health, Teachers, Teenagers, Veterans
Fluent in: 
American Sign Language, English
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Last update: Aug 04, 2022