Dan Alter

Birth Year: b. 1966
Current City: Berkeley, California, USA
Birth City: New York City, New York, USA
Genre(s): Poetry, Translation

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Biography

Dan Alter’s poems and reviews have been published in journals including Field, Fourteen Hills, Pank, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles was a finalist for the 2022 Anne and Robert Cowan Writer’s Prize. He has been a fellow of the Arad Arts Project, and is a member of the Community of Writers at Olympic Valley. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley and makes his living as an IBEW electrician.

Published Works

My Little Book of Exiles, Eyewear Press, 2022

Links to Sample Works

Languages of Publication(s) and Poets Translated

Hebrew, working on Yakir Ben Moshe

Subject Matter

Antisemitism, Art & Ekphrasis, Childhood, Cultural Identity, Death, Diaspora, Environment & Climate Crisis, Family, Friendship, Grief & Elegy, History, Israel/Palestine, Labor, Loss, Love, Midrash, Parenting, Pop Culture, Documentary Poetics, Disability.