Jack Galmitz was born in 1951 in New York City. He holds a Ph.D from the University of Buffalo in modern American Literature. His work has appeared in print and digital poetry venues. He was a long-time contributor to Otoliths and Ginyu, a Japanese haiku magazine published by Ban’ya Natsuishi. His work has appeared in Alien Buddha Press, Synchronized Chaos, and many others. He is married and lives with his wife in New York.