Dena Rod

Dena Rod is a non-binary poet and essayist whose debut poetry collection Scattered Arils is now in its fifth print run from Milk and Cake Press. Their work has been published in The Rumpus, Autostraddle, and SF Eater. They’re currently at work on their first novel. Connect with Dena at their website, denarod.com

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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