Dan Alter is the author of two collections of poetry: My Little Book of Exiles (Eyewear, 2002), winner of the Cowan Poetry Prize, and Hills Full of Holes (Fernwood, 2025). He is also the translator of Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited (Ben Yehuda, 2024), from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe. His poems, reviews, and translations have been published widely. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.