David Salner’s poetry has appeared in Threepenny Review, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Poetry Daily, and many other magazines–he has received grants and prizes from the Dr. Henry P. Page Laughlin Foundation, the Maryland State Arts Council, The Puffin Foundation, the 2009 Oboh Prize–his poetry was performed by Garrison Keilor on NPR–he worked for 25 years as an iron ore miner, steelworker, and laborer.
Salner lives in Millsboro, DE. with his wife, Barbara Greenway. They spend more money than they make and look forward to visits with their daughter, Lily and son-in-law Paul.
Salner has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His working life has included jobs as iron ore miner, steelworker, machinist, bus driver, cab driver, longshoreman, teacher, and librarian. He was also a telephone solicitor for 24 hours.
A chapter from Salner’s newest novel A Place to Hide appeared in the 2016 December magazine. This novel tells the story of a fugitive from Montana who ends up working on the Holland Tunnel—of his hardships, his friends, and his one true love— in the 1920s Lower East Side. Other prose pieces have appeared in Lascaux Review 2014 Prize Edition, Cottonwood, and Green Hills Literary Lantern; his blogs have appeared in North American Review, Potomac Review, and Fourth River.
Salner was honored with grants from the Puffin Foundation, the Dr. Henry P. and Page Laughlin Fund, and two from the Maryland State Arts Council. He won the 2016 Lascaux Prize for Poetry and the Oboh Prize. He has received eight Pushcart Prize nominations and on three separate occasions Garrison Keillor read Salner’s work on the NPR show Writer’s Almanac. He has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
A Place to Hide will be released on March 30th, 2021. You can purchase Salner’s newest release on Apprentice House, Amazon and other booksellers.
You can find more information about David Salner on his website.
