Rosemarie Dombrowski
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AZCTR 370B PHOENIX, AZ 85004-0320
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Mail code: 0520Campus: Dtphx
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Rosemarie Dombrowski is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Phoenix, AZ and the director of Revisionary Arts, a nonprofit that facilitates therapeutic poetry workshops for vulnerable populations and the community at large. She’s the founding editor of both rinky dink press (a publisher of micro-collections of micro-poetry) and The Revolution (Relaunch), an award-winning, creative resurgence of the official newspaper of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association.
She’s also the co-founder and faculty editor of Write On Downtown, an annual publication that showcases the work of Phoenix creatives, as well as the faculty editor of Grey Matter, the medical poetry journal of the Narrative Medicine program at the University of Arizona Biomedical campus in Phoenix.
She’s published three collections of poetry including The Book of Emergencies (Five Oaks Press, 2014), a lyrical ethnography of the culture of nonverbal Autism, and The Cleavage Planes of Southwest Minerals [A Love Story], winner of the 2017 Split Rock Review chapbook competition.
She’s the recipient of an Arts Hero Award, a Women & Philanthropy grant, and Fellowships from the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics and the Academy of American Poets. In 2020, she was named one of “The Great 48” by Phoenix Magazine.
She serves on the advisory board of the Narrative Medicine program at the University of Arizona Biomedical campus (Phoenix) and she teaches courses on women’s literature, medical poetry, and journal curation/editing at Arizona State University’s Downtown Phoenix campus.
- University of Iowa International Writing Program, summer 2014 and 2016
- Ph.D. English (American Literature), Arizona State University, 2007
- B.A. English, Arizona State University, 1996
- B.A. Anthropology, Arizona State University, 1996
- African Studies Program, University of Ghana at Legon, summer 1996
