Elisabeth Lagelée

Paris born and raised, Elisabeth Lagelée (Eli) is an Audie Award winning voice actor with over 150 audiobooks narrated from her San Francisco home studio. Fluent in French and German, she specializes in Fantasy, romance and historical fiction while her pseudonym, Luna Rey loves to play in the worlds of dark Fantasy and Romantica. Favorite projects include “When The Sea Came Alive” by Garrett M. Graff for Simon&Schuster and indie titles like “Coyle and Fang: Curse of Shadows” by Robert Adauto III (set in SF!). She also narrates in native Parisian French for her French clients. Outside the booth, Eli enjoys going on SF city guide walking tours and baking crêpes with her little one.

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