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Anita Felicelli

Anita Felicelli is the author of How We Know Our Time Travelers and other books. She is the editor of Alta Journal’s California Book Club. She was a director on the board of the National Book Critics Circle from 2021-2024.

2025 Inside Ideas

Speaker  – Stories of Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction

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