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Nina LaCour

Nina LaCour is the bestselling and Michael L. Printz Award–winning author of several young adult novels, including We Are Okay, Hold Still, The Disenchantments, and Everything Leads to You, as well as a novel for adults, Yerba Buena. She is also the author of the picture book Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle,illustrated by Kaylani Juanita, and My Friend, Loonie, illustrated by Ashling Lindsay. Her books have won many awards and have been translated into several languages. LaCour lives with her wife and their daughter in San Francisco.

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