Katie Longua

Katie Longua is always looking for ways to make the world more magical. She has been publishing her own comics for over ten years, including the award-winning RÖK, Her Space Opera, and Munchies. Her newest book is Agent Cupcake, made with Triple Dream Comics and published by Oni Press. She’s the person many kids want to be when they grow up, once they realize growing up doesn’t mean becoming boring.

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