Cathy Day

Cathy Day is an American contemporary novelist and short story writer.
Biography
Cathy Day was born and raised in Peru, Indiana. Her home is famous for being a circus town, and the location was an influence for her first book, The Circus in Winter, a novel-in-stories. She received her graduate degree from the University of Alabama. She has taught at University of Pittsburgh, The College of New Jersey, and Minnesota State University. Day currently teaches at Ball State University.
Work
Day has published two books. Her first book, The Circus in Winter, is a novel-in-stories depicting the lives of circus workers living in Lima, Indiana, during the winter season. Her second book, Comeback Season, is an immersion memoir that chronicles her season of online dating set against the Indianapolis Colts Super Bowl season.
Honors and Awards
* Great Lakes Book Award (finalist) for The Circus in Winter.
* The Story Prize (finalist) for The Circus in Winter.
* Kansas City Star’s 100 Noteworthy Books of 2004, The Circus in Winter.
* Tennessee Williams Scholarship, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2001.
* storySouth Million Writers Award (finalist) for short story “Genesis”.
Musical Adaptation
In 2011, the Virginia Ball Center for Creative Inquiry adapted her novel, The Circus in Winter, into a stage musical.

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