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Sarah Sugarman

Sarah Sugarman (she/her) is an educator, coach, and facilitator and a former elementary school teacher. She is also a fiction writer whose work was most recently featured in Bright Flash Literary Review. She lives with one teen, one tween, one co-parent, and a murderous tuxedo cat in Berkeley, California.

Where to find me at the festival
May 30, 2026 - In Search of Middle Grade Mysteries

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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