Bryanna (she/her) was born and raised in Tucson. She is a high school teacher and a writer of fiction, memoir, and poetry. She is a previous Grand Prize winner in Tucson's Hearst undergraduate poetry competition.  Most recently, she was nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize. She holds a Bachelor's degree in English and Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. Bryanna joined the board in 2021 and served as Co-Director for one year before taking on the Director position in 2024.   

Laura is a writer, editor, potter, and teacher based in Tucson, AZ for the last quarter century. She writes fiction, personal essays, and poetry. Her prose poems have been published in Sandscript and she was selected as a two-time fiction finalist of the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards. Laura hails from the Garden State of New Jersey, graduated with an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Arizona, and was a Fulbright scholar in India. She’s thrilled to be serving as the treasurer for the Tucson Poetry Festival since October 2015.

Sarah (she/her) is a poet and librarian who has called Tucson home for the last 13 years. Her debut collection of poems, Ganbatte, won the Felix Pollak Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press, and her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, and The Feminist Wire, among others. She currently serves as Library Director at The University of Arizona Poetry Center. A long-time admirer of the Tucson Poetry Festival, she was delighted to join the Board in 2021.