David SalnerSUMMER WORDS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS is David Salner's fifth poetry collection. His writing also appears in noted magazines including Threepenny Review, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Salmagundi, North American Review, and Ploughsharesm>. His novel, A Place to Hide, won first place for historical fiction from Next Generation Indie Book Awards. 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. He has worked all over the country as iron ore miner, steelworker, machinist, bus driver, cab driver, garment laborer, longshoreman, teacher, and librarian. He was also an usher for minor league baseball. His coworkers have had a deep impact on his writing. He lives in Millsboro, Delaware with his wife, Barbara Greenway. In their free time, they enjoy the ocean and visits with their daughter and son- in-law. Read More Read Less