Daniel Kraft is a writer, translator, and educator, living with his wife, Britt, and son, Noah, in Richmond, Virginia. He holds a BA from St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, and an MTS from Harvard Divinity School, where he was a resident at the Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions.
As a writer and translator, his work has been published in The Kenyon Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Slate, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other journals, and anthologized in Best Spiritual Literature 2025. He is a regular contributor to the Torah commentary column at Jewish Currents. His work has been supported by a Translation Fellowship from the Yiddish Book Center, by Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish poetry, and by the Community of Writers.
Daniel is a founder and the Education Director of Richmond Yiddish Week, an annual cultural festival, and was a founding editor of Gashmius magazine, an online publication dedicated to an inclusive vision of Jewish mystical art, writing, and spiritual practice. He frequently teaches about Jewish art and culture for synagogues, museums, and other institutions across the country.
