anine Kovac writes about power dynamics and women’s bodies. She is the author of two memoirs: the self-published Spinning: Choreography for Coming Home, which was a semi-finalist for Publishers Weekly’s BookLife Prize and the hybrid-published The Nutcracker Chronicles, which was a finalist for the American Best Book Awards. Janine is an alumna of Hedgebrook and a MacDowell fellow. She lives in Oakland.
Speaker – Paths to Publishing: From the Big Five to DIY
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
