
Margarida Cardigos Bastos holds a Master’s degree in Text Editing from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at NOVA University Lisbon, where she wrote her dissertation on the ethical indispensability of literature in the post-digital age. In 2020, she completed a BA in English with Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London. She has been teaching English as a foreign language since 2019 and worked in content writing for international publications between 2021 and 2025. She occasionally writes opinion pieces for the digital magazine Reconhecer o Padrão.