Suzanne Lago Arthur is a contemporary realist painter, born in Puerto Rico to Cuban-American parents and the host/creator of The Creative Contemplation Podcast, with over 10,000 downloads and listeners from over 73 countries. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally in various museums including the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Art Museum of the Americas in Washington DC, Booth Museum of Western Art in Cartersville, GA, the United States Interests Section, Havana, Cuba and in art galleries across the United States. She has been featured in the New York Times and House and Garden UK Magazine and most recently in U.S. Ambassador Huddleston’s memoir on her service in Cuba, entitled Our Woman in Havana: A Diplomat's Chronicle of America's Long Struggle with Castro's Cuba.