Harley Claes is a Buddhist Filipino poet, perfume maker, and novelist. She is the founder of Angelical Ravings Zine and a nominee of The Pushcart Prize. She is an editor at Homology Lit and a forthcoming monthly columnist at Cough Syrup Magazine. Her work is oftentimes anachronistic, mystical, philosophical and holy erotic. Graduating, she received an all arts education. Early on she began to explore blending fragrances and as a result 'The Fragrance Temple' was born, a collection of perfumes, bath teas and scrubs she began to sell. You can find her books on Amazon, and Goodreads. While her work has been featured in FLAPPERHOUSE, Terse Journal, Anti-Heroin Chic Mag, Rose Quartz Journal and Scum Gentry Arts, Vessel Press, Persephone's Daughters, Aromatica Poetica, The Opiate, Wilde Boy Literature, Danse Macabre, Mookychick, Moonchild Magazine, Rag Queen Periodical, Expat Press, and FLAPPERHOUSE, Cough Syrup Magazine, Spill Yr Guts Zine, Subrosa Zine and The Opiate's print issues.