Phillip Bannowsky is a poet and novelist who draws on his experiences as Navy brat, autoworker, international educator, and human rights activist to address the human mundane versus historical juggernaut. Phillip worked on the assembly line for Chrysler in Newark, DE for 31 years. He has taught secondary English in Ecuador and Lebanon and The Poetry of Empowerment at the University of Delaware. He is an associate editor at Dreamstreets magazine and was the 2017 recipient of an Established Artist Fellowship in Poetry for his then work-in-progress, Jacobo the Turko: a novel in verses.