Daniel Meltz

Daniel Meltz was raised in the low-rent reaches of New Jersey, sixteen minutes from Times Square, and has lived in Manhattan for fifty years. His poems and stories have been published in Best New Poets 2012, American Poetry Review, Salamander, upstreet, Columbia Review and many others. Both his first book of poems, It Wasn’t Easy to Reach You, from Trail to Table, and his first novel, Rabbis of the Garden State, from Rattling Good Yarns, will be published in 2025. He’s a retired technical writer and teacher of Deaf young people, with a B.A. from Columbia (no honors).