Daniel Meltz

Dan Meltz was raised in the low-rent reaches of Jersey, sixteen minutes from Times Square, and has lived in Manhattan for fifty years. He’s a retired technical writer and teacher of deaf young people, with a B.A. from Columbia (no honors). 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, were published in 2025.