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Sandhya Acharya

Sandhya Acharya grew up in India and now lives in the Bay Area, California with her family. Sandhya’s published picture books include narrative non-fiction LIVING BRIDGES, published by Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster, 10 GULAB JAMUNS, a Math/STEM fiction with heart and humor, and a forthcoming lyrical fiction EVERYWHERE I CALL HOME published by Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Hachette. She is also a substitute teacher and afterschool ELA teacher.

Besides children’s literature, her work has been featured in Washington Post, NPR(KQED), India Currents, Lost Balloon, Peacock Journal, Aaduna among others. When she is not writing or teaching, she is training for the next marathon, climbing a mountain, dancing Bharat Natyam, or volunteering.

Where to find me at the festival
May 31, 2026 - Protecting Nature’s Patterns

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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