David Salner has worked as an iron ore miner, steelworker, machinist, janitor, and longshoreman. Currently he works in a library. His writing appears in recent issues of Threepenny Review, Salmagundi, Beloit Poetry Journal, American Literary Review, and many other magazines. His fourth book is The Stillness of Certain Vallies (2019, Broadstone Books). He is working on a novel about the lives of the sandhogs who built the Holland Tunnel. www.DSalner.wix.com/salner