Joanna Colette Duarte grew up travelling through Central America and Canada. She recently returned to Ontario after exploring British Columbia for three and a half years.

She has been a professional face painter, a painter, and a sketch and tattoo artist. Joanna started tattooing at age 16 and is now a well sought after tattoo artist. Her artwork was featured at Chameleon Nation in 2008 and she was part of the international graffiti event called Under Pressure in Montreal in 2012.
In 1992 she won a poetry award from The Poetry Institute of Canada and she became a published playwright in 1993. She has enjoyed participating in poetry and literature blogging in the past. She is thrilled to have her work finally come to life in this dark and morbid book.