Sharon Levin has been reviewing Children’s and Young Adult Literature for 27 years. She runs Book Clubs for kids and teens, and co-teaches Black Civil Rights History Through the Lens of Children’s Literature. She has served on multiple committees for the American Library Association, the California Independent Bookstore Association, and is in her sixth year Chairing the Los Angeles Times Young Adult Book Award.
Moderator – Love +
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
