Liz Cahill

Liz Cahill is the cofounder and Executive Director of Decentered Arts, a nonprofit dedicated to building resilient community through art of all mediums. A community builder, poet and artist she’s tirelessly scheming to make the Bay Area arts ecosystem more accessible and sustainable for artists to live and thrive.​ As an artist, she works with Piles Collective, transforming trash into fine art. Her first poetry book Garbage Age Lady, is forthcoming on Decentered Press. In her free time, Liz can often be found biking around San Francisco, exploring new parks, and quiet side streets.

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