Natalia Vargas Márquez is a writer, researcher, and educator, with over ten years of experience in higher education. With a PhD in the humanities (University of Minnesota) and with experience publishing essays and books in English and Spanish, her interests include the way our ideas of nature are framed by colonialism, play and non-human animals, and pop culture. She specializes in developmental editing for non-fiction and academic writing, book-length projects such as dissertations and memoir, writing coaching, research, and sensitivity reading in any genre, including novels.