David Roderick is the author of two poetry collections, Blue Colonial and The Americans. His poetry has been recognized with the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and the Julie Suk Award. He directs Left Margin LIT, a creative writing center and work space for writers in Berkeley.
Speaker – How to Find (& Create) Your Writing Community
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
