{"id":26,"date":"2025-09-08T01:14:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/869070\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2025-09-08T01:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:14:40","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/869070\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Michelle Lovett, LCSW<\/strong>, wrote her first poem shortly after reading her first word and has been writing ever since. Her debut book, The Moon Is Mistaken, is an eclectic collection of precious life moments weaving between inner and outer worlds. The book travels from micro poem to short story to song, shining light on the wisdom of nature and that special thing that happens when we love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michelle is a spoken word artist and likes to perform her work. She uses humor in poems like \u201cI Will Not Write a Poem about Pie\u201d and expresses her deep belief in healing in \u201cShe Put Gum in My Hair,\u201d her creative nonfiction piece about working in a high school in the Bronx. In poems like \u201cHeart Home,\u201d \u201cAutomn\u2019s Cloak,\u201d and \u201cFinishing Life,\u201d she shares a piece of her heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When she is not writing poems, she is running her company Lovett Productions. Michelle is the executive director for the nonprofit Oneness Center NYC, and she maintains a small private spiritual psychotherapy practice with select clients.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/869070\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/author.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1432 size-full\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Nieves Carrasquillo Jr. was born and raised in Bayam\u00f3n, Puerto Rico. A follower of Yahweh. He is a talented graphic designer, animator, and illustrator with a BA in Visual Communications and Digital Art from the American InterContinental University and a MA in 3D Animation and Visual effects from the Academy of Art University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1478,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-left-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","no-comments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/869070\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/869070\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/869070\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/869070\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/869070\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/869070\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/869070\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/869070\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}