Maia is an avid reader who can be found reading fantasy books until well past bedtime on most nights, preferably something by Sayantani DasGupta or Shannon Messenger. When she’s not reading, Maia also enjoys rehearsing and performing with musical theater or playing violin.
MC – Moving House, Moving Place, and Opening Our Minds
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
