Avione Lee was born and raised in Texas, as indicated by her excessive use of the word y’all. As a kid, she loved reading Sunday comics (a very, very extremely short graphic novel you got weekly); as an adult, she loves reading almost anything. You can find her with a good book.
Speaker – Fantastical Worlds and Beings
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.
Speaker – A Compass in the Wilderness: Poetry in the Age of Environmental Crisis
