Cathy Day was born and raised in Peru, Indiana, which is best known as a circus town, but is also the birthplace of Cole Porter and the Spanish hot dog. She is the author of two books. Her most recent work is Comeback Season (Free Press, 2008), part memoir about life as a single woman and part sports story about the Indianapolis Colts Super Bowl season. Her first book was The Circus in Winter (Harcourt, 2004), a fictional history of her hometown which has been adapted into a musical. The Circus in Winter was a finalist for the GLCA New Writers Award, the Great Lakes Book Award, and the Story Prize, and is being adapted into a musical. Her stories and essays have appeared most recently in Sports Illustrated, Freight Stories, Creative Nonfiction, and Ninth Letter. Her essay, "Where Do You Want Me to Sit?" appeared in Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom: The Authority Project. Ed. Anna Leahy, published by Multilingual Matters Ltd., one of the first books on creative writing pedagogy.The Circus in Winter was a finalist for three book contests: the Story Prize, the Great Lakes Book Award, and the GLCA New Writer Award. It was a Barnes & Noble "Discover" selection, an "Original Voices" pick at Borders, and a Best Book of 2004 on Amazon.com. Circus has been translated into both German and Czech. Her fiction and nonfiction have been broadcast on NPR's " Selected Shorts" and "Studio 360″ and appeared in The Antioch Review, River Styx, Shenandoah, Southern Review, Story, Cream City Review, Gettysburg Review, and American Fiction, among others.Strange but true: The Circus in Winter was the solution to the New York Times Magazine acrostic puzzle in February 2005.Cathy has been the recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, a Bush Artist Fellowship, a New Jersey Arts Council Grant, and other university research grants. She's held teaching positions at Minnesota State University-Mankato, The College of New Jersey, and the University of Pittsburgh. Currently, she lives in Indiana and teaches at Ball State University.