Tyree Daye

Tyree Daye was raised in Youngsville, North Carolina. He is the author of the poetry collections a little bump in the earth (Copper Canyon Press, 2024); Cardinal (Copper Canyon Press, 2020); and River Hymns (American Poetry Review, 2017), the winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize.

A Cave Canem Fellow and a Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellow, Daye is the recipient of a Whiting Award and was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Award.

Daye was the 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is currently an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In January 2023, he served as the Guest Editor of the Poem-a-Day series.