Pablo Rodríguez Burón (Valladolid, 1980) is a writer, journalist and EFL teacher, and has lived in Seville for the last 13 years. He has worked for different media, including El Diario de Valladolid, Ociototal.com, Youthing and Libros y Literatura, and currently collaborates with Negratinta. Under the pseudonym Leo Mares he published Tales of Leo Mares with La Oveja Negra Ediciones in 2007 and The Stone Embrace with Editorial Alhulia in 2008, as well as the short stories Optimism (included in the 2013 anthology Seville in Few Words from Editorial Jirones de Azul), Reunion, and Disappeared, which were both included in the second edition of Ediciones de Letras in 2015. Turistia is his first novel.