Thank you so much for joining us at this years festival. Join us for the Merritt Dialogues on the 8 July.
Danielle Deveaux is a Bookseller/Event Coordinator at Books Inc. San Leandro where she runs a monthly Romantasy Book Club and a quarterly Dark Romance Book Club, both of which are filled with some of the loveliest humans in the world. When she’s not busy organizing bookish events, she’s hunting down her next favorite read or struggling to find more room on her shelves for it.
Moderator – Romantasy — Not for the Faint of Heart
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
