Daniel Meltz is a retired technical writer and teacher of deaf adults. His poetry’s been published in Best New Poets 2012, American Poetry Review, Salamander, upstreet, Imitation Fruit, Columbia Review, Talking Writing, Audio Zine, Temenos, Assisi, Mudfish, CCAR Journal, Verse Wisconsin, and other journals. He has a BA in English from Columbia and lives in Manhattan and Queens.