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Faith Adiele

FAITH ADIELE is a memoirist, essayist, travel writer, and speaker. She is author of Meeting Faith, an award-winning account of becoming Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun, and a set of speculative memoirs – Her Voice: Hänen Äänensä: A Hybrid Memoir and Voice/Over: A Memoir Breakout in 7 Movies. Her media credits include A World of Calm (HBO-Max), Sleep Stories (Calm App), and the documentary My Journey Home (PBS) about finding her family in Nigeria. Her award-winning journalism appears in Alta, Smithsonian, Hyperallergic, Miami Herald, and others. Faith teaches and speaks around the world.

Where to find me at the festival
May 30, 2026 - Maps for Worlds Still Becoming: Experiments in Genre, Language, and Form

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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