Thank you so much for joining us at this years festival. Join us for the Merritt Dialogues on the 8 July.
Devi S. Laskar is a poet and photographer, a former journalist and the author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues,winner of multiple awards including the 2020 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Her second novel, Circa (2022), was a Goop Book Club selection. Her next novel, Midnight, At the War, will be published by Mariner in 2025.
Speaker – A Revolution of Raised Voices
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
