He is the winner of the 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize for his book River Hymns (April, 2017). Daye is a 2017 Ruth Lilly Finalist and Cave Canem fellow and longtime member of the editorial staff at Raleigh Review. He received his MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University. Daye’s work has been published in Prairie Schooner, New York Times, Nashville Review. Daye recently won the Amy Clampitt Residency for 2018 and The Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award for his poems in the Fall 2015 issue. He is an Assistant Professor of English at St. Augustine's University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Sponsored by the IHC’s Social Securities series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment.