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Cherie Hunter Day (born July 3, 1954, Morristown, New Jersey), American writer, poet, editor, and artist. She served as Northwest Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America, co-organizer of the Haiku North America 1997 conference, edited the Haiku Poets of Northern California’s journal Mariposa, and was an associate editor of The Heron’s Nest, a staff editor for the Red Moon Anthology series, and a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award panelist. She judged the Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku Competition, the HPNC Tanka Contest and Rengay Contest, Mildred Kanterman Memorial Merit Book Award, Harold G. Henderson Award, and the Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Award. Day is the author of seven full-length books and six chapbooks. Miles Deep in a Drum Solo (2022) and apology moon (2013) won Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards. beyond/within: A Collection of Rengay (1997), Early Indigo (2000), and for Want (2017) received Honorable Mentions from the HSA Merit Book Awards. A House Meant Only for Summer (2023) was shortlisted for a Touchstone Award. She lives in Auburn, New Hampshire.
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