Cherie Hunter Day (born July 3, 1954, Morristown, New Jersey), American writer, poet, editor, and artist. Author of seven full-length books and six chapbooks of haikai, five of them selected for The Haiku Foundation and Haiku Society of America book awards. Active as an editor for Mariposa, The Heron’s Nest, and the Red Moon anthologies. Judge in the HPNC tanka and rengay contests, the HSA Henderson haiku competition and Merit Book Awards; the Nick Virgilio student haiku contest; and The Heron’s Nest’s Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Award. Resides in Auburn, New Hampshire.