Jennifer Aldrich

Jen Aldrich is a freelance audiobook narrator, proofer, and prepper. As a post-production proofer, she is credited on over 150 titles in solo, dual, duet, and multicast audiobooks. Her first title as a narrator was The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft which she self-produced. She works most frequently with Blue Nose Audio, an independent full service audiobook production and publishing company. She works from her tiny home in a custom built recording booth that also serves as her office.

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