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 Rail, Chicago Review, The Delineator, Across the Margin, Open House, Breather, 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 the Millay Colony, where Late Human (UDP, 2021) was completed.