Nick Taylor

Nick Taylor is the author of the novels The Disagreement and Father Junípero’s Confessor. Under the pseudonym T.T. Monday, he also writes a series of thrillers featuring the baseball relief pitcher and detective Johnny Adcock. Taylor is Professor of English & Comparative Literature at San José State University, where he directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

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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