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Michael Genhart

Michael Genhart, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and author of several picture books including: I See You, Love Is Love, Rainbow: A First Book of Pride, and Spanish Is the Language of My Family. After being together for 22 years, Michael married the love of his life in 2008–when they could legally marry. He is thrilled to share Edie’s and Thea’s story about love, commitment, and courage with readers of all ages.

2025 Family Day 

Speaker  – Bite-Sized Biographies: Picture Books of Resistance and Resilience

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