Naomi Day is an interdisciplinary storyteller writing Afro-centric speculative fiction in which she interrogates her generational distance from the concept of home. Her narratives examine the nuances of life along the margins, 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, FIYAH Magazine, Black Warrior Review, and more. Her work has been supported by residencies and funding from the Sundress Academy for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, The Seventh Wave, and the Carl Brandon Society. She is part of the Clarion West class of 2022 and is currently pursuing 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.