Rosemarie Dombrowski

Poet

Phoenix, AZ
Arizona US

Author's Bio

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.

 

Publications & Prizes

Books:
The Cleavage Planes of Southwest Minerals (Split Rock Review, 2018)
,
The Philosophy of Unclean Things (Finishing Line Press, 2017)
,
The Book of Emergencies (Five Oaks Press, 2014)
Prizes won: 

Women and Philanthropy Grant (2009); Academic Excellence in Diversity Grant (2013); Arts Hero Award (2017); Fellowship from the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics (2017); fellowship from the Academy of American Poets (2020); Great 48 Award (2020); Arizona Humanities Outstanding Speaker Award (2022); five Pushcart nominations; Carrie McCray Literary Award in Nonfiction (2017); Split Rock Review Chapbook competition (2017).  

 

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Whitman & Dickinson, Sexton & Plath. Donald Hall, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Brian Turner, Rafael Campo.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Manhattan, KS
Kansas
Raised in: 
St. Joseph, MO
Missouri
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Last update: Sep 15, 2022