Shizue Seigel

Shizue Seigel is a Japanese American writer, visual artist and organizer based in San Francisco. She directs Write Now! SF Bay, which supports writing and art by people of color through free workshops, events, exhibits, and five anthologies funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission, California Arts Council and others. Author or editor of nine books, she’s been published most recently in The Tender Hearts Club, Panorama, Blue Mesa Review, Journal X/, and the Porter Gulch Review. www.WriteNowSF.com. www.shizueseigel.com.

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