Mayet Ligad Yuhico

Her first full-length novel "Fourteen Days" was published in December 2010.

Although writing is her first love, Mayet is also a visual artist and learned her drawing skills from painter Elaine Roberto-Navas. Other gifted teachers followed like Fernando Sena, and through the years she has has also taken classes wtih world-renowned portrait artist Daniel Greene in Boston and Gregg Kreutz at the Scottsdale Artists' School in Arizona.

Her last major art exhibit "Homage to the Masters" was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila in 2002 was considered a critical success. Her painting, "The Blue Gift", in homage to Pierre Bonnard stood alongside works of National Artists Vicente Manansala, Napoleon Abuevaand Arturo Luz. Other artists in that exhibit included Romulo Galicano, Antonio Austria and Juvenal Sanso.

Based in Singapore since 2012, Mayet has shifted to the genre of speculative fiction in her next novel "Homo Roboticus" to ponder on the consequences of global warming and climate change.

She is looking forward to publishing her new novel,

Her first full-length novel "Fourteen Days" was published in December 2010.