Naomi Day is a teaching artist and interdisciplinary storyteller working with Black speculative fiction and film photography. Her narratives examine her generational distance from the concept of home, the weight of family legacy and belonging, and the effect of sustained trauma and systems of power on queer Black lives.

Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Uncanny Magazine, Black Warrior Review, and more. Her critical writing has appeared in Lit Hub. Her work has been supported by residencies and funding from the Sundress Academy for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, the Carl Brandon Society, and more. She also owes a particular debt of gratitude to The Seventh Wave for their avid support of her work via publication, residency, and editorial opportunities. She is part of the Clarion West class of 2022 and holds a dual MFA in Fiction and Writing for Children and Young Adults from The New School. In various former lives, she’s been a software engineer and a short fiction assistant editor.