Profiles in "Creative Writing - Poetry" Expertise Area

  • Kristin LaCroix teaches creative writing, contemporary literature, and fairy tale courses. She served as Faculty Fiction Mentor for Superstition Review for sixteen years.
  • Patricia Colleen Murphy is the winner of the 2019 Press 53 Poetry Prize for Bully Love, and the 2016 May Swenson Poetry Award for Hemming Flames. She founded Superstition Review and teaches at Arizona State University.
  • A graduate of ASU’s MFA in creative writing program, Laura Cruser teaches composition, fiction, and business writing at ASU. Cruser's writing has appeared in Arts & Letters, The Greensboro Review, and other publications.
  • Rosemarie Dombrowski is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Phoenix, AZ and the founding director of Revisionary Arts, a poetic medicine nonprofit committed to improving health outcomes through poetry.
  • Ernesto L. Abeytia is a Spanish-American poet and educator specializing in modern and contemporary American and Latinx poetry. At GFL, he advances Public Interest Technology, and Responsible and Principled Innovation.
  • Bender is a first-year composition instructor at ASU.
  • Rachel Andoga is a poet from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals including Indiana Review, The Citron Review, Third Coast, Sundog Lit, and Arcadia.