Mar Benegas is a poet, writer and children's book author, who specialises in teaching and lecturing in poetry, and encouraging reading and creativity in children. Her work encompasses reading, writing, creativity and poetry for adults and children. She runs courses in Spain and abroad. She has worked in schools, teaching and pedagogic innovation centres, official centres of learning, and professional library, university and other institutions associations and foundations. She has been part of various initiatives and cultural creativity spaces related to reading and poetry; for six years she coordinated school visits for the Provincial Library of Valencia. She currently runs JALEO, Days for Encouraging Reading, Writing and Observation, for the International Menédez Pelayo University in Valencia.