Alyssa Skyes
Writer, artist, and author of
Poetry Dust: In the Middle of My Before and After
An American author, poet, and visual artist, Skyes explores themes of philosophy, consciousness, duality, and the relationship between the invisible and the tangible.
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Alyssa Skyes was born into a family of thirteen children and spent her early years traveling with nomadic parents across Central and South America and beyond.
This colorful and unpredictable upbringing exposed her to many of life’s contrasts—comfort and discomfort, wealth and poverty, rootedness and movement, and the wide range of experiences the world offers. That fluidity helped shape her creative spirit and fostered a lifelong interest in impermanence.
For much of her adult life, Skyes has worked in the arts as a photographer, editor, painter, and poet. Never drawn to a single medium, she explores acrylic, watercolor, gouache, collage, photography, hand-coloring, and writing as different ways to translate what feels unseen into something visible. Creativity remains her constant companion.
Her work is influenced by the fleeting nature of life, the resilience required to navigate it, and the quiet awareness that human beings are "temporary creatures who carry something that does not feel temporary". She is drawn to the relationship between the invisible and the tangible—the interplay between energy and matter, time and form, love and responsibility.
Much of Skyes’s writing reflects on duality, consciousness, and the habits we accumulate that shape who we become. She is fascinated by the constant movement of energy within the world, the sacred force within all matter, and the sparks of inspiration that pass from contact to contact. Many of these reflections continue to grow within her evolving collection of essays and philosophical notes known as the Philosophical Greenhouse.
At the heart of Skyes’s work is curiosity. She believes awareness matters more than allegiance, that attention becomes accumulation, and that meaningful change begins with the willingness to examine oneself. In a world shaped by constant dualities, she holds that we remain responsible for the seeds we allow to grow.
Through art and writing, she hopes to inspire others to uncover the extraordinary within the ordinary and to encourage lives filled with diverse and meaningful experiences that help expand all that we are capable of becoming.
Skyes is the author of Two Seconds of Eternity, a philosophical reflection on consciousness and the recounting of an inter-dimensional experience, and Poetry Dust: In the Middle of My Before and After, an award-winning poetry and art collection that received the 2025 National Indie Excellence Award in the Gift Book category.
She currently lives and works in Mexico, where she continues to write, create, and explore the intersections of philosophy, art, and the human experience.