Regina Lawless Toney

Regina Lawless Toney is a Bay Area–based author, speaker, adjunct professor and former tech executive. She is the author of Do You: A Journey of Success, Loss and Learning to Live a More MeaningFULL Life (Fast Company Press), a book that explores ambition, grief, identity, and what it really means for women to define success on their own terms. Her work lives at the intersection of women’s leadership, embodiment, and spirituality. In her spare time, Regina enjoys reading, music and practicing yoga.

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