Susan B. Katz is an award-winning Spanish bilingual author/illustrator, National Board Certified Teacher, and literacy specialist. She has published more than 80 books, including “Gaudí–Architect of Imagination,” “The Story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” “Frida Kahlo,” and “Meditation Station,” winner of the International Children’s Mind/Body/Spirit Book Award. She lives near San Francisco, CA.
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.
Speaker – A Compass in the Wilderness: Poetry in the Age of Environmental Crisis
