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Meredith Jaeger

Meredith Jaeger is the USA Today bestselling author of The IncorrigiblesThe Pilot’s DaughterBoardwalk Summer, and The Dressmaker’s Dowry. She has been described as “a gripping voice” by the Los Angeles Times, while Publishers Weekly calls her dual-timeline historical novels “moving and well-researched.” Born and raised in Berkeley California, Meredith holds a BA in Modern Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

2025 Inside Ideas

Speaker  – Seeking Justice in Historical 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