Diana Farid

Diana Farid is a poet, an award-winning author, and a physician at Stanford University. Her debut picture book, When You Breathe, a poetic introduction to respiration, was named a 2021 Notable Poetry Book by the National Council of Teachers of English, won a 2021 EUREKA! Gold Award for children’s nonfiction and made the 2021 Communication Arts shortlist for Illustration. Her debut middle grade verse novel, Wave, released on 3/29/22. “Raw and powerful…Rich, layered, and heart-rending.” –Kirkus Reviews.Wave celebrates the healing power of poetry and music.

2025 Family Day 

Speaker  – Storytime for Littles

Dan Alter

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.

2025 Writers’ Workshops

Speaker A Compass in the Wilderness: Poetry in the Age of Environmental Crisis