Peter Limata

Peter Limata is a public school elementary educator and literacy advocate for young readers. He was born and raised in Lusaka, Zambia. He lives in Oakland California. Peter has been reading and telling stories since childhood. You can see Peter at a venue near you reading and telling stories and every weekday on his YouTube and Facebook channels through his show dubbed Story Time with Mr. Limata. The show is rooted in social justice and promotes reading and access to books for families–the young and young at heart.
When not reading books, Peter can be found playing or watching soccer, biking or hanging out with friends or on his Porch with an ice cream bar.

2025 Family Day 

MC  – Quiet Voices, Loud Feelings

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