Renay H. Marquez is a graduate of the University of Southern California, School of Architecture. She has worked as a paraeducator since 2003. Renay spends her workdays modifying curriculum, collecting data, investigating technology for students, finding time to video game, and write fiction novels. ParaEducate is her first book on the topic of Special Education. Renay has participated in NaNoWriMo since 2006 and completed the 50,000 word minimum each year. In 2013, Renay returned to fiction work with "Sheltered Hearts", a short story originally written in 2009 as a part of NaNoWriMo.