On her 70th birthday on December 15, Alma Cruz Miclat is launching the deluxe edition of her book, Soul Searchers and Dreamers, Volume II, the first volume of which was released in 2015. The 152-page, 8.5” x 11” hardbound book in full color has a stunning cover of an oil painting by the author’s departed daughter, artist and poet Maningning Miclat as designed by poet and artist Fidel Rillo. Miclat’s latest book continues her tribute to artists, writers, and their magnificent works as published from 2016 to 2020 mostly in the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Lifestyle section, and also the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)’s Sanghaya, among others. Soul searchers featured in this book are National Artists Nick Joaquin and Napoleon Abueva; literary icons Gilda Cordero Fernando and Rogelio Mangahas; art gallery doyenne Norma Liongoren; art luminaries Danny Dalena, Imelda Cajipe Endaya, Julie Lluch, Addie Cukingnan and Romeo Gutierrez; maverick artists Kublai Millan, Danny Rayos del Sol, Dexter Sy, Dansoy Coquilla, Azor Pazcoguin, Nasser Lubay, and physician-artist Orestes P. Monzon; language stalwarts Teresita V. Ramos and Mario Ignacio Miclat; the late academic Ajit Singh Rye; diplomat Nona Zaldivar; entrepreneur Herman T. Gamboa; and man of the cloth Jose Maria de Nazareno. The second half of Soul Searchers and Dreamers: Artists’ Profiles by Alma Cruz Miclat is a collection profiles of Filipino artists previously published in the country’s newspapers. Yet, it is the other part of this book, Miclat’s autobiographical writings, that make it an invaluable document of a lesser known and underexplored diaspora—that of the leftist intellectuals who fled the Marcos dictatorship for Cultural Revolution China.