Rosemarie Dombrowski (RD) is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Phoenix, AZ, the founding editor of rinky dink press (a publisher of micro-poetry collections), and the founding director of Revisionary Arts, a nonprofit that facilitates therapeutic poetry workshops for vulnerable populations and the community at large.

RD has published three collections of poetry to date and was the winner of the 2017 Split Rock Review chapbook competition.

She’s the recipient of an Arts Hero award (2017), a Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets (2020), a Great 48 award (Phoenix Magazine, 2020), and the Arizona Humanities Outstanding Speaker Award (2022). In April 2022, she gave a TEDx talk entitled “The Medicinal Power of Poetry.”

Currently, she’s an Assistant Professor of Practice at U of A Biomedical (Phoenix) and a Principal Lecturer at Arizona State University, where she specializes in medical humanism/medical poetry, literature of the marginalized, and journal editing/production.

In addition to being the founding editor of ISSUED: stories of service, sponsored by the Office for Veteran and Military Academic Engagement at Arizona State University, she’s also the faculty editor of Grey Matter, the medical poetry journal of the University of Arizona Biomedical campus in Phoenix.