About Lilli

Lilli Jolgren Day was the little girl who asked for colored pencils, paints, and books for her birthday every
year. She was voted “Most Creative” by her senior classmates in high school and has been trying hard for
the past twenty-five years (plus) to live up to their great expectations. Her love of people and art led her to
study portrait painting and photography in college.

She has worked as a commissioned oil painter and is an award winning photographer specializing in nature
photography and children’s portraits. Two of her favorite subjects were her own two children, who for the
first few years of their young lives thought their mother was a Nikon camera with long skinny arms. Those
two photogenic children had the gall to grow up and move out leaving Ms. Day with a camera shy husband
and a hyper little Pomeranian who wouldn't sit still and who ran to the refrigerator whenever commanded to
“say cheese”. While waiting (patiently) for future grandchildren to chase around and harass with her camera
Lilli recently began selling stock photography on iStockphoto.com. Now if you happen to be thinking that
Ms. Day looks too young to have grandchildren in that photo on her home page, you'd be correct (and
congratulations, you most likely have an exceptionally high IQ). After marrying in her early twenties, she
naively decided to have children right away to bide her time while she tried to figure out what she really
wanted to do when she grew up. She is still trying to figure that out and she learned the hard way that
motherhood is much more than just a hobby. (And if you're not thinking that she looks all that young you've
probably guessed that she knows where the blur tool is in Photoshop and she's not afraid to use it!)

In her never ending quest to retain that highly prized high school title, Ms. Day set her camera and
paintbrushes aside one day and began to write. She has completed two novels, is halfway through a third,
and has successfully published several personal essays one of which is now required reading in an Ethics
course at Evergreen State College in Washington.

Lilli will always be creating something. Whether a photograph, a painting, a craft project, or the poetry of
the written word, art is at the very core of her being. It feeds her spirit and without it she would be lost. She
lives and creates in the Great Lake State of Michigan alongside her loving husband, surrounded by family
and cherished friends, and a stone's throw away from those two (nearly) perfect grown-up children (who
should call their mother right now!).

Lilli Jolgren Day