Robert Day’s novel The Last Cattle Drive was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. His fiction won a number of prizes and citations, including two Seaton Prizes, a Pen Faulkner/NEA prize, and Best American Short story and Pushcart citations. His short stories have been published by Tri-Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, Kansas Quarterly, North Dakota Quarterly, and New Letters among other belles-lettres magazines. He is the author of two novellas, In My Stead, and The Four Wheel Drive Quartet. His collections of short stories include Speaking French in Kansas, Where I Am Now, and A Billion Dollar Dream. For Not Finding You (a novel) was published in 2021 before his passing in 2022.

He was a past Acting President of the Associated Writing Programs; the founder and former Director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House; and founder and publisher of the Literary House Press at Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland where he was Professor Emeritus.