Natasha Dennerstein

Natasha Dennerstein was born in Melbourne, Australia. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Natasha has had poetry published in many journals internationally, including The North American Review and Spoon River Poetry Review. She has published several poetry collections and chapbooks including, most recently in 2024, the collection Apps Poetica from The Los Angeles Press and the chapbook Caught in the Machine from Be About It Press in Philadelphia. She lives in Oakland, California, where she is a freelance editor. She is a Fellow of the Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat.

2025 Writers’ Workshops 

Speaker  – Panel: We Will Not Disappear: Queer/Trans Voices in a Time of Backlash

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