Kurt Wallace

Kurt is a long-time moderator for the San Francisco Writer’s Workshop and regular reader and leader for LItCamp and LitQuake. He is currently deep in writing a novel about the strangeness of memory and the strength of queer culture in authoritarian times, entitled “River Time.” In an ideal world, he would live on a Scottish island off the coast of San Francisco, only reachable by a glorious, sparkly, narrow bridge.

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