Leticia Hernández-Linares

Leticia Hernández-Linares is an award-winning, bilingual interdisciplinary writer, performer, and social engagement artist. She is the author of the poetry collection Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl (Tía Chucha Press, 2015) and the children’s book Alejandria Fights Back! ¡La lucha de Alejandria! (Feminist Press, 2021). Widely published, her work appears in anthologies such as Maestrapeace, San Francisco’s Monumental Feminist Mural and Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology. She has created numerous interdisciplinary performances and art installation projects and has presented her poemsongs throughout the country and in El Salvador.

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