Holly Day has worked as a freelance writer for over 30 years, with over 7,000 published poems, short stories, and articles and 40 books and chapbooks. Her writing has been nominated for a National Magazine Award, an Isaac Asimov Award, a 49th Parallel Prize, nineteen Pushcart awards, five Best of the Net awards, and a Rhysling Award, and she has received two Midwest Writer's Grants, a Plainsongs Award, a Sam Ragan Prize for Poetry, and a Dwarf Star Award from the Science Fiction Poetry Association.