Rebekah Piatte

Rebekah Lovato Piatte has spent her career working as a writer, editor, and product developer on hundreds of books and products. She has worked in-house for Klutz Press and later at Insight Editions, where she developed, launched, and managed the IncrediBuilds imprint. She has also worked as an independent contractor for a variety of clients—from Kiwi Co. to Scholastic, Inc. Her expertise is in children’s publishing, with a particular love for STEAM topics and highly visual books.

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