Jacqueline Leung

Coming Soon! 2025 Inside Ideas Speaker  – Stories of Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction

Maxine Hong Kingston

Coming Soon! 2025 Bookworm Blockparty Speaker  – Incantation for Future: Closing Headliner & Portal Closing

Theresa Harlan

Coming Soon! 2025 Family Day  Speaker  – Native Story Circle

Jewelle Gomez

Coming Soon! 2025 Inside Ideas Speaker  – Telling Our Futures: Speculative Fiction and Social Change

Cheryl Fabio

Coming Soon! 2025 Inside Ideas Moderator  – Decolonizing Wealth: Confronting Systemic Barriers, Creating Lasting Change

Raquel Donoso

Coming Soon! 2025 Family Day  Moderator  – Bite-Sized Biographies: Picture Books of Resistance and Resilience

Caro De Robertis

A writer of Uruguayan origins, Caro De Robertis is the author of six novels, including The Palace of Eros, Cantoras, and more.Their books have been translated into seventeen languages and have receive numerous honors, including two Stonewall Book Awards and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, which they were the first openly nonbinary writer to receive. […]

Dani Burlison

Dani Burlison (she/her) is the creator/editor of All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger and the Female Body, and the author of Some Places Worth Leaving. She has been a staff writer at a Bay Area alt-weekly and a regular contributor at Yes! Magazine, Chicago Tribune, KQED, and elsewhere. Her journalism, fiction, and personal essays can also […]

Crystal Mason

Coming Soon! 2025 Inside Ideas Speaker  – So Many Stars: A Celebration of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color

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