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 from 1971 to 2003.His major fields are sea fiction and Darwin's profound influence on American fiction.

Ms. Litchfield is a PhD English Creative Writing student at Binghamton University. She teaches at BU and ASU. Her interests include American Literature, trauma studies, feminist memoir, and writing pedagogy.