Meggie Ramm

Meggie Ramm (they/them) is a nonbinary cartoonist from Michigan. They spent their 20s teaching comics to kids in Oakland, California, and it was the best job in the whole world. They’ve had work in The New Yorker,have worked with Everyday Feminism and Silver Sprocket, and have a limerick-based comic strip called “The Littlest Dungeon Guard” distributed through Sunday HaHa. They love rhymes, reading gay sci-fi and fantasy, and comics.

2025 Family Day 

Speaker  – Pages and Pictures from Early Reader to Middle Grade

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