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32 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine ARTS, MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT Dr. Day’s children’s books are “Chain Letter” and “The Rainbow Zoo.” Her award-winning memoir, “Married at Fourteen: A True Story,” documents her turbulent teenage years. As a poet, she has brought her knowledge of science and concern for the environment to bear in her poetry collection “Infinities” and in “Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California,” an anthology she coedited. Her 11th poetry collection, “Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place,” was published in Fall 2020. She has won the Blue Light Poetry Prize, two PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Awards, the Joseph Henry Jackson Award and eleven Pushcart Prize nominations. After receiving a BA in biological sciences, MA in zoology and PhD in science/mathematics education at the University of California Berkeley, Dr. Day earned her MA in English and MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University. To promote the work of other writers, in 1999 she founded Scarlet Tanager Books. D r. Lucille Lang Day is the author or editor of 19 books encompassing science education, children’s literature, poetry and memoir. As a science educator, she has been a voice advocating science education for girls and underrepresented minorities. She is a co-author of “How to Encourage Girls in Math and Science: Strategies for Parents and Educators,” a book that grew out of the Novato Math/Science Sex Desegregation Project, Novato Unified School District, California, where she worked as a math/ science specialist. While serving as director of the Children’s Hospital Hall of Health, Dr. Day was co-director of Health and Biomedical Science for a Diverse Community, a project funded by the National Institutes of Health that promoted understanding of health issues and accessibility to biomedical science in elementary schools. In her capacity as project co-director, she developed and edited two books: “SEEK (Science Exploration, Excitement, and Knowledge): A Curriculum in Health and Biomedical Science for Diverse 4th and 5th Grade Students” and “SEEK: Family Health and Science Festival.” LUCILLE LANG DAY, PHD POET, AUTHOR, SCIENCE AND HEALTH EDUCATOR Oakland, CA