Marian Sugano holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. She teaches AP® Spanish Literature at The Overlake School in Redmond, Washington. She is the author of the original Horizontes, The Poetics of the Occasion, and articles on Vargas Llosa, Cortázar, and the teaching of Spanish idioms.

Sugano was an integral part of Wayside Publishing's Azulejo author team, along with María Colbert, Abby Kanter, and James Ryan.