Writer and poet Lucille Lang Day was born in Oakland, California, and grew up in Oakland and nearby Piedmont.
Her latest book is The Cosmos and Me: New and Selected Poems (Trio House Press, 2026). Her memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story, received a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Other books include eleven poetry collections and chapbooks, two children’s books, and three books on science education. She has also edited or coedited three poetry anthologies and has published short stories, essays, book reviews, science journalism, feature articles, and research papers. Her work has appeared widely in newspapers, magazines, and anthologies.
Latest Book: The Cosmos and Me: New and Selected Poems
The Cosmos and Me by Lucille Lang Day is an opus of a life spent pursuing wonder, justice, love, and of course, poetry. In these poems that span over fifty years, Day invites the reader to consider the larger questions of existence and meaning alongside the small joys of the everyday, with poems on the universe alongside poems that consider red shoes or a lost necklace, poems set in outer space alongside poems set in the backyard. Lucille Lang Day is unafraid to ask and to answer the hard questions, to bear witness to our times, be they beautiful, tragic, or both. As California Poet Laureate emeritus Dana Gioia puts it: “Full of both intellect and emotion, The Cosmos and Me lives up to its large and lofty title.”
