"Dan Meltz's poems are so intimate it almost feels like prying to read them. They're so funny and bold and moving though, that you can't help yourself."
-David Sedaris, New York Times bestselling author
Dan Meltz was born in Newfoundland, raised in New Jersey and liberated in New York. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets 2012, Jewish Quarterly, Mudfish, Salamander, Tusculum Review, upstreet and lots of other journals. He is a retired technical writer and teacher of Deaf young people. He has a B.A. from Columbia and lives in Manhattan and Queens. His novel, "Rabbis of the Garden State" (2025), is published by Rattling Good Yarns.
