Cathy Day
Assistant Professor of English
412-624-3147
cld37@pitt.edu
CL 628-C
Cathy Dayreceived her MFA from the University of Alabama in 1995. Before joining the faculty at Pitt, she taught creative writing and contemporary literature at Minnesota State University, Mankato and The College of New Jersey.
Research and Publications: Cathy Day is the author of two books: Comeback Season, a non-fiction novel (Free Press/Simon & Schuster 2008) and The Circus in Winter, a short-story cycle (Harcourt 2004) which has been translated into German and Czech. Her stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in New Stories from the South, Story, River Styx, Antioch Review, Shenandoah, Post Road, Indianapolis Monthly,Sports Illustrated, Freight Stories, Creative Nonfiction, and Ninth Letter. Her current project is Mrs. Cole Porter, a diary novel.
Honors and Awards:include a Bush Artist Fellowship, a New Jersey Arts Council Grant, special mention in the Pushcart and Best American Short Stories anthologies, and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. The Circus in Winter was a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award, the Story Prize, and the GLCA New Writers’ Award. Comeback Season was nominated for the Great Lakes Book Award and has been optioned for film.
Teaching
Graduate Courses:
- Fiction Workshop
- Readings in Contemporary Fiction
Undergraduate Courses:
- Senior Seminar in Fiction
- Readings in Contemporary Fiction
