Rosemarie Dombrowski is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Phoenix, AZ, the founding director of Revisionary Arts, and a narrative medicine specialist committed to improving public health through poetry.

Christie holds doctorate, master’s, and bachelor’s degrees in English with emphases respectively in cultural studies, composition and rhetoric, and American literature.

Cryer teaches writing at Arizona State University. His poetry collection, 'Selected Proverbs', won Elixir Press' 2016 Antivenom Poetry Award.

Bert Bender taught American literature at ASU from 1971 to 2003. He had a parallel career as a commercial fisherman in Alaska's Cook Inlet from 1963-1992.