Angela Dalton

Angela Dalton is an award-winning author of children’s literature whose work has been recognized by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, Jane Addams Peace Association, Northern California Book Awards, and other esteemed organizations. Her titles include If You Look Up to the SkyRuby’s Reunion Day Dinner(HarperCollins), Show the World! (Viking), To Boldly Go: How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Civil Rights(HarperCollins), and her forthcoming debut early reader, Freedom Celebration: A Juneteenth Party(HarperCollins). When she’s not reading or writing, Dalton is involved in several organizations that support children’s literacy. She is the executive director and co-founder of Storytime Friends, a board member of Tandem Partners in Early Learning Literacy, and a writing mentor for fourth and fifth-grade students at Chapter 510 in Oakland, California.

2025 Inside Ideas

Speaker  – Telling Our Futures: Speculative Fiction and Social Change

Dan Alter

Dan Alter’s poems, reviews and translations have been published in journals including Field, Fourteen Hills, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles won the 2022 Cowan Poetry Prize. A volume of translations Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited, from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in September 2024, and Hills Full of Holes, a second collection of poems, by Fernwood Press in March 2025. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.

2025 Writers’ Workshops

Speaker A Compass in the Wilderness: Poetry in the Age of Environmental Crisis