Lucille Lang Day
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Lucille Lang Day at AWP Conference, 2017 | |
| Born | December 5, 1947 Oakland, California |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) San Francisco State University (M.A., MFA) |
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Lucille Lang Day (born December 5, 1947) is an American poet, writer, and science and health educator. Day has authored or edited 20 books and is a contributor to over 60 anthologies. She is best known as a poet and writer for her award-winning memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story, for her integration of science imagery and concepts into poetry and for advocating use of poetry as a tool in environmental activism. As a science and health educator, her many achievements have included promoting science education for girls and serving as codirector of Health and Biomedical Science for a Diverse Community, a project that was funded by the National Institutes of Health and aimed to make biomedical science more accessible to underrepresented minorities.