{"id":609,"date":"2015-05-28T14:51:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T18:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/?p=609"},"modified":"2015-05-28T14:51:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T18:51:55","slug":"mar-asks-cherie-hunter-day-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/mar-asks-cherie-hunter-day-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"MAR Asks, Cherie Hunter Day Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Cherie<\/a>
Cherie Hunter Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cherie Hunter Day’s work has appeared in literary journals such as Moon City Review, Quarter After Eight, SmokeLong Quarterly, <\/em>and Wigleaf. <\/em>Her 2014 Fineline entry, \u201cFisher Scientific,\u201d appears in 35.1 and marks the fifth time she was a finalist and Editors’ Choice in MAR<\/em>‘s Fineline Competition. She lives in Cupertino, California<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Quick! Summarize your piece in 10 words or fewer. Extra points if your answer rhymes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It describes falling down stairs after Histology lab.<\/p>\n

What can you share about this piece prior to its MAR publication?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wrote this piece in a single sitting and sent it to a prose poem contest that same day, without the usual \u201cdrawer time.\u201d In hindsight it needed that time for me to see its weaknesses. Four months later I rewrote the last line and submitted it to the Fineline.<\/p>\n

What was your reaction upon receiving your MAR acceptance?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been a Fineline finalist five times [2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2014]. I\u2019m always happy to be published in MAR<\/em>. Someday I just might win this thing!<\/p>\n

You\u2019re at a family reunion and some long-lost relative asks about your writing. What do you say?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Family members know better than to ask me such questions. In a previous life I worked in a genetics\/molecular biology laboratory. When they asked me to explain what I did for work, I described isolating 27 Ivermectin resistance genes in Caenorhabditis elegans<\/em>, a small, free-living, transparent soil nematode. They quit asking me what I did for work.<\/p>\n

What do you consider your biggest writing-related success? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Seven of my poems were selected for the W.W. Norton anthology, Haiku<\/em> in English: The First<\/em> Hundred Years<\/em> [Kacian, Rowland, and Burns, editors] 2013. Rae Armantrout picked one of my short-form poems as runner-up Best of Issue in R\u2019r<\/em> 10.1, 2010. My pocket guide, Life on Intertidal Rocks<\/em>, Nature Study Guild\/Keen Communications, published in 1987 is still in print.<\/p>\n

Your biggest writing-related regret?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wish I were a more prolific writer. As it is, every word counts.<\/p>\n

Tell us one strange thing about yourself that does not involve writing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For four years I was an EMT for a volunteer ambulance rescue squad in rural Maine.<\/p>\n

Tell us one strange thing about yourself that does <\/em>involve writing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m an insomniac. I routinely wake up in the middle of the night for a couple hours. If I\u2019m stuck on a writing piece, I get solutions during this restless period. I have to write them down, otherwise they are gone forever.<\/p>\n

Do you have another favorite piece of writing in this MAR issue? If so, name it and tell us why.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 35th<\/sup> Anniversary special section of prose poetry, short shorts, and creative flash non-fiction is full of tasty and satisfying pieces. Donna Steiner\u2019s \u201cSinkers\u201d and Alan Elyshevitz\u2019s \u201cDeep\u201d struck a chord with me. \u201cOne of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family\u201d \u2013Pat Conroy.<\/p>\n

Can you show us a photo of you holding your MAR contributor\u2019s copy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Cherie<\/a>Thanks for the interview, Cherie!
\n<\/em><\/strong>Laura Maylene Walter, Fiction Editor<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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