JASMIN DARZNIK is the New York Times bestselling author of three books, most recently The Bohemians. Her personal essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. She is chair and associate professor of the MFA in Writing Program at California College of the Arts.
Speaker – Embrace Furiously This Burning World: Writers Reckon with Now
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
