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These pages hold writing and art from mothers around the world and in the Arizona community. We partnered with Revisionary Arts, a nonprofit that facilitates poetic medicine/therapeutic poetry workshops for vulnerable populations, including caregivers. Together, we envisioned a generative space for mothers through writing-based and art-based workshops, and a handmade publication dedicated to motherhood. Revisionary Arts then received a Next Wave Grant from the City of Tempe to help fund this project. We found our village. Please join us.
Contributors
Betsy Andrews Etchart is a public artist, writer, and teacher in Goodyear, Arizona. Her award-winning poetry and essays have appeared in Cricket and in magazines throughout the West. ColorWheelsAZ.com.
Lissa Batista is a Brazilian-born poet, teacher, and mother whose work explores language and lineage through reflections on motherhood and the generational teachings of how to love and be loved.
Susie Bendix is a professional dancer-choreographer and runs a nonprofit called; Think-Motion. She provides movement programming to artists, seniors, those experiencing loss and incarcerated people. www.Think-Motion.org
Virginia Chase Sutton, a poet and memoir writer, recently had a poem featured in 2025’s Poem of the Day by Paris Review. She lives in Tempe, Arizona.
Allison Collins is an editor and journalist. Her fiction and poetry have been published in literary journals. A mother of three, Allison lives in upstate New York with her family.
Jill Crammond is the author of Handbook for Unwell Mothers. Her poetry has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appears in Bending Genres, Mom Egg Review and others. She teaches preK and art in upstate NY.
Jesse Curran is a poet, essayist, and educator from Northport, NY. She also the mother of two bright stars, Leona and Valentine.
Ashley Czajkowski is a photo-based artist, educator, new mother and curious human animal. These entangled, beloved callings, forever desiring and nourishing her creative energy.
Laura Davies is a British poet interested in the interplay between nature and language, and is influenced by her Welsh heritage, especially the landscape and mythology of Wales.
Ana Doina is a Romanian-born American writer and photographer from NJ. Her poetry books, The Later Generation, (Kelsay Books,) and Legend of Bread, (Legacy Press Books,) were released in 2024.
Rosemarie Dombrowski is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Phoenix, AZ and the founding director of Revisionary Arts, a poetic medicine nonprofit. She’s a full-time caregiver to her adult son.
Dorothy DiRienzi has published in multiple literary journals. She edited and indexed medical books in Philadelphia, PA and policy manuals at Arizona State University. She is retired and lives in Phoenix.
Roxanne Doty lives in Tempe, AZ. Her writing has appeared in various journals. Her novel was published in 2022, a chapbook in 2024 and a poetry collection is forthcoming summer 2026.
Melissa Dunmore is guardian of diasporic narratives and matriarch-in-training. Originally from Brooklyn, NY with roots in rural Puerto Rico, she is best known for her stage and page poetry.
Julia Fleeman lives in Phoenix. She has been a librarian and a Yoga instructor. She’s published poems online but some of the sites have disappeared. It’s not her fault.
Georgene Smith Goodin is a two-time Moth Story Slam champion. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, cartoonist Robert Goodin, and their four children. Follow her on Bluesky, @gsmithgoodin.bsky.social.
Rosalie Hendon is a poet living in Columbus, Ohio. Her work was nominated for Best of the Net and appears in Chiron Review, Inverted Syntax, Cosmic Daffodil, Flora Fiction, Ravens Perch, and elsewhere. Rosalie reads for Black Fox Literary Magazine. She published her debut chapbook, The Black Between the Stars, in 2025.
Amanda Hoffman is a Phoenix-based writer and communications executive. As the mother of a former micro-preemie, her writing explores motherhood and prematurity, including a forthcoming NICU memoir.
Nadia Kyte enjoys snacks, thrifting, flowers, movies, and spending time with her family. She lives in Ottawa, ON, where she is working on an experimental novellette about the legal doctrine of coverture.
Anne E. G. Nydam makes relief block prints celebrating the wonders of worlds both real and imaginary, and writes magical books, short stories, and poetry affirming the importance of love and hope. See more at nydamprints.com.
Becky Petterson is a stay-at-home mom to three boys. Her work has appeared in Redivder, Carte Blanche, and Mslexia, among others. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family.
Brittany Rose is a poet, pole dancer & zine maker from Aotearoa, New Zealand. Their work is mainly published in NZ literary journals, and the University of Waikato’s student magazine, Nexus.
Lynne Schilling began writing poetry seriously at 75. She has published in New Verse News, MacQueen’s Quinterly, contemporary haibun online, Unbroken, and others. You can find her at https://lynneschillingpoetry.com/
Rowan Tate is a Romanian creative (poet, essayist, visual artist, songwriter) whose work probes identity, memory, and the ways we construct reality.
Millie Walton writes fiction and poetry. She is the founder of Babe Station, an art and research project exploring the relationship between art-making and motherhood through exhibitions, workshops and live events.
Abigail Wasserman is a writer, educator and mother of two young boys based in Massachusetts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times “Tiny Love Stories,” Eunoia Review, wildscape. literary journal and ONE ART
Veronika Winkels is a published author, poet and printmaker based in Melbourne, Australia. She is also Founding Editor of Mathilde, a magazine for women, culture & history. When she’s not working, she’s probably reading or bushwalking with her husband, professional magician Tristan McLindon, and their five young children.
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