Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, NC. He is the winner of the 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize for his book River Hymns (American Poetry Review, 2017). Daye is a 2017 Ruth Lilly Finalist, 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, The New York Times, and 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.