Natalia was born in Athens, Greece in 1968. She studied French literature at university and began teaching French. However, she soon discovered that what she really liked doing was drawing pictures on the blackboard rather than correcting French grammar exercises: and so did the children. So she became a children’s book illustrator. She currently lives and works on the island of Kefalonia (Greece) and Mum Wants to Fly is her first picture book published in Spain.