Kimberly A. Gordon Biddle

Dr. Kimberly A. Gordon Biddle (she/her) (pinkpearlwriting.com) is an Emeritus Professor of Child and Adolescent Development (Developmental Science) and the author of four textbooks, three picture books, and middle grade novels currently in revision. Her work centers the emotional and developmental lives of children, especially those from underrepresented communities, with care, authenticity, and insight.

A proud alumna of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, Kimberly was honored with the Excellence in Education Alumni Award in 2018 for her impactful contributions to the field. Through all of her writing—academic and creative—she remains committed to illuminating the experiences of children with dignity, love, and truth.

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