Sana Rafi

Sana Rafi grew up spending Eid in different places, but her fondest memories include celebrating it in Lahore, Pakistan, with her large extended family and copious amounts of food. Inspired by her son and daughter—along with a deep desire to showcase Muslim characters—she is the author of Little Seeds of Promise and A Mermaid Girl. Visit sanarafi.com to learn more

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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