Abigail Reno

Abigail is a lifelong artist and performer who found a love for music and acting as a child. She studied opera and choral conducting at the undergraduate level after having her interest in performance piqued by many roles in musical theater growing up.

After spending time studying acting in LA and performing both on stage & screen, she now gets to do what she loves from home – telling stories using her voice. Transitioning from the world of theater to voice over & audiobook narration couldn’t have felt more natural, as she have always been a book-worm, often caught hiding under her blankets with a book & flashlight as a child when she was supposed to be asleep. She has recorded titles for Penguin Random House, HarperAudio, Hachette, Macmillan, Disney, Brilliance, Audible Studios, Spotify & Podium Entertainment among others…

She is a Northern California native, raised between the redwoods and the ocean. When not in her home studio, you can usually find her exploring the nearby forests with her son & dog.

Where to find me at the festival

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