Creative bio:
Naomi Day is a storyteller working with Black speculative fiction and film photography. Her writing examines the politics of the Black body, the construct of social monstrosity, and generational trauma as inheritance. Her short fiction has appeared in Uncanny Magazine and Black Warrior Review, among others, and her critical writing has appeared in Lit Hub. Her work has been supported by the Sundress Academy for the Arts, the Carl Brandon Society, and more. She owes a particular debt of gratitude to The Seventh Wave for their avid support of her creativity in all forms. She is part of the Clarion West class of 2022 and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. In various other lives, she’s a teaching artist, editor, and engineer.
General bio:
Naomi Day is an interdisciplinary storyteller and teaching artist dedicated to building narrative capacities among under-resourced communities. She has an extensive multi-industry background in software engineering, creative writing, and editing, and applies the detail-oriented, technical, and managerial skills she learned in those spaces in her current work across classrooms and organizations. She has an MFA in Creative Writing, a passion for research-based storytelling, and a deep desire to change the world, among other things.
