Innosanto Nagara

Innosanto Nagara is the author and illustrator of the classic board books “A is for Activist” and “Counting on Community”. He has also written and illustrated social justice themed children’s books for different ages. His picture book “My Night in the Planetarium” and the ‘highly illustrated’ middle grade book “M is for Movement aka Humans Can’t Eat Golf Balls” bring readers into a world shaped by colonialism, resistance art, and movements led by youth. “The Wedding Portrait” is a true story about why sometimes, when faced with injustice, we must be willing to break the rules. And his latest book, “Oh, the Things We’re For!”, is a celebration of the world we strive to build–because movements must be sustained by inspiration and hope.

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