Faye Snowden

Faye Snowden is the award-winning author of the Killing series. The second book in the series, A Killing Rain, was named as one of the best southern gothic mysteries of 2022, was longlisted for CWA’s Gold Dagger, and won gold in the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year awards.

She has received competitive writing fellowships from Djerassi and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Two of her short stories have been anthologized in The Best American Mystery and Suspense (2021 & 2023).

Faye is a member of Sisters in Crime, Crime Writers of Color, and Mystery Writers of America. Today, she works and writes from her home in Northern California while enjoying the company of her extremely rowdy and gorgeous grandchildren.

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