Winner of the 2004 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction.
RICHARD CORTEZ DAY was born in Kentucky and grew up in Michigan. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.S. in mathematics and chemistry and an M.A. in English. He spent the four years in the U.S. Navy before receiving a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Iowa. He has received a grant for fiction writing from the National Endowment for the Arts and is published in both national and international journals: New Mexico Quarterly, December Magazine, Massachusetts Review, Kenyon Review, Redbook, Quarterly West, Carolina Quarterly, New England Review, CutBank, West Coast Review, Cleo (Australia), Damernas Varld (Sweden), and Proza Americana (Romania). His novel When in Florence was published in 1986. Day is a professor emeritus of English at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California.
