Artist Bios

Leah May Lim-Atienza is a 43-year-old artist from Cebu, Philippines. She is the author of Look to the Sky, a full-color poetry book containing photos and short poems depicting her journey through depression. She started writing professionally in 2000 when she joined as a news reporter for a local TV station, RPN 9 - Cebu. In 2002, she transitioned to writing news and feature stories for Cebu Daily News.

Lim-Atienza is a founding member of a poetry group called The Stray Poets Collective, which was formed in October 2017. A year after, she became a member of the prestigious Women in Literary Arts – Cebu (WILA - Cebu), the first all-women literary group in the province which was founded in September 1991.

E: leighheart@gmail.com

Christa Capua is an Asheville and Miami based artist working in multimedia and digital collage. She earned her BFA in painting and drawing from Bennington College in 1994, as well as graduating Cum Laude from Florida International University in 2005 with an MS in Counseling.

IG: @christa.e.c E: christa@christacapua.com WEB: www.christacapua.com

When not toiling on the phone as a BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) manager, Miguel Santos spends his time in-between a book, thinking about his next snack, or practicing his next spoken word piece. His work has been featured in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, based in Hong Kong. He works with The Stray Poets Collective, a poetry group based in Cebu, Philippines, which aims to enliven the local literary scene.

E: littleblueworm@gmail.com

Peter Eleveld, 70, lives in Olst, Netherlands. Peter’s awards include: 4x Nominee, FAPA International Fine Photography Awards (April 2020), 3 Honorable Mentions in the Monovisions Black & White Awards (2019), 7 Honorable Mentions in the IPA Awards New York (Sept. 2019), 3 Honorable Mentions in the 13th Pollux Awards (2019), to name a few.

Photograph by: Ilse de Vries, IG:@IlseDeVries

Skylar Fray is an actor and poet based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She originally hails from Manhattan, New York.

Josh Stein is a lifelong multi-mode creative artist, musician, writer, professor, and adult beverage maker. With formal training in calligraphy, graphic design, and color work; more than two decades as a researcher, teacher, and writer in cultural analysis in the vein of Birmingham and Frankfurt Schools; and a decade and a half as a commercial artist and designer for multiple winery clients; he brings his influences of Pop art, Tattoo flash and lining techniques, and Abstract Surrealism and Expressionism to the extreme edge where graphic design and calligraphy meet the Platonic theory of forms. The resulting metallic inks and acrylics on canvas delight and perplex, moving between the worlds of solidity and abstraction.