Leila A. Fortier is a writer, artist, poet, and photographer currently living in Okinawa, Japan. She creates unique hybrid poetry works that combine words crafted into visual designs over her art and photography. Her belief in exploring inward and outward experiences through multiple facets is passionately expressed in her profoundly emotional work revering all of life's spiritual and physical experiences. Her work has been published in several literary reviews, magazines, books and anthologies.