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Marguerite Sheffer

Marguerite Sheffer is the author of The Man in the Banana Trees (University of Iowa Press, 2024) winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Her stories appear in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Epiphany, The Adroit Journal, The Cincinnati Review, Smokelong Quarterly, and BOMB, among other magazines. Formerly, she was a high school teacher in Oakland, and now teaches design thinking and speculative fiction for social change at Tulane University in New Orleans.

2025 Inside Ideas

Speaker  – Stories of Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction

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