Leslie Barnard Booth

Leslie Barnard Booth writes lyrical picture books about science and nature. She is the author of One Day This Tree Will Fall, illustrated by Stephanie Fizer Coleman, and A Stone Is a Story, illustrated by Marc Martin. Leslie grew up in the Pacific Northwest, among giant trees, rugged mountains, and lots of clever corvids. She lives in Portland, Oregon, and loves exploring the natural world with her family. Visit her online at lesliebarnardbooth.com.

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