Holly Day has worked as a freelance writer for over thirty years, with over 7,000 published articles, poems, and short stories and forty books and chapbooks. Her writing has recently appeared in Harvard Review, Asimov's SF, and Potomac Review, and her recent book publications include Music Composition for Dummies and Music Theory for Dummies. Her writing has been nominated for a National Magazine Award, an Isaac Asimov Award, a 49th Parallel Prize, multiple Pushcart awards, and a Rhysling Award, and she has received two Midwest Writer's Grants, a Plainsongs Award, the Sam Ragan Prize for Poetry, and a Dwarf Star Award from the Science Fiction Poetry Association.