Meredith is a picture book author who strives to tell authentic stories that reflect kids’ uniqueness, wonder, and magic. An activist and advocate, Meredith is passionate about equity, anti-racism, and anti-oppression work. She loves playing board games, making miniature books, and singing show tunes (when she’s sure no one is around.) She is a children’s librarian and lives with her family in San Francisco.
Speaker – I’m Awesome, Just the Way I Am
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
