Cathy Day is an American novelist, short story writer, and English professor.
She is the author of the linked story collection, The Circus in Winter (Harcourt, 2004), and a memoir, Comeback Season: How I Learned to Play the Game of Love (Free Press, 2008).
[3] Since 1997, Day has been teaching creative writing at the college level.
[4] She is currently an Associate Professor at Ball State University, where she also serves as the Assistant Chair of Operations in the English Department.
[5] Day's work has been published in numerous literary magazines, including PANK, Ninth Letter, River Styx, The Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, and Quarterly West.