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Mahogany L. Browne

Mahogany L. Browne is a writer, playwright, organizer, and educator as well as an NY Emmy, NAACP, and Audie finalist. A 2022 Kennedy Center Next 50 Fellow and inaugural Poet-in-Residence at Lincoln Center, her collection Chrome Valley won the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize. Her YA novel was longlisted for the National Book Award. She holds an honorary doctorate from Marymount College.

Where to find me at the festival
May 31, 2026 - I Know Who I Am: Voices in the Now-Future

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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