David Salner

A widely published author and for many years a blue-collar worker, David Salner is uniquely qualified to tell the story of the fugitive laborer in his novel A Place to Hide.

He has worked all over the country as an iron ore miner, steelworker, machinist, bus driver, cab driver, garment laborer, longshoreman, teacher, and librarian. Salner's writing appears in Threepenny Review, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Salmagundi, North American Review, Ploughshares, and many other magazines. His fourth volume of poetry is The Stillness of Certain Valleys (Broadstone Books, 2019).

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 nine 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.

The novelist William Heath described Salner as "the poet laureate of working people." He continues, in his review of Salner's work in Kestrel magazine, "now he brings his considerable abilities to his first novel, A Place to Hide…. A tale of life on the lam with a deeply human dimension, A Place to Hide is a memorable read."

Salner lives in Millsboro DE with his wife, Barbara Greenway.

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