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María Saiz has a Ph.D. in Spanish literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder, a M.A. in Spanish Literature and Linguistics from Western Michigan University and a Licenciatura (equivalent to a B.A.) in English Philology from the University of Valladolid in Spain. Her primary area of research is twentieth-century Spanish literature, specifically narrative, poetry and drama written between 1880 and 1936. She studied the travel writings of Miguel de Unamuno. A native of Spain, she has been teaching Spanish in the United States for over twenty years at both the secondary and college levels. After graduate school, she worked as an instructor and a coordinator of Extended Basic Spanish at the University of Cincinnati. Then she moved to Los Angeles where she taught at two independent schools, Vistamar School and Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy. When her family relocated to Princeton five years ago, she started working as a Spanish Adjunct faculty at Rider University and as a program coordinator for People & Stories / Gente y Cuentos, a non-profit that is dedicated to opening doors to literature to new audiences and contributing to create a more equitable society.