Zakery R. Muñoz was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Syracuse University in the Composition and Cultural Rhetoric program where he is waiting to defend his dissertation, Better Writers: Our Relationship to Graduate Student Writers in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies. His national research study on graduate student writing pedagogy can be found in a forthcoming issue of College Composition and Communication. Additionally, his research can be read in the edited collection by Utah State University Press, Beyond Productivity: Embodied, Situated, and (Un)Balanced Faculty Writing Processes. He teaches courses in digital writing, technical and professional communication, Indigenous rhetoric, and composition studies. He has coordinated and led a number of community writing workshops for all levels of writers, including children and multilingual writers. He is currently the assistant director for Writing Across the Curriculum at Syracuse University. He completed his master’s and bachelor’s degrees at the University of New Mexico, a majority minority, Hispanic serving institution. He also proudly holds an associate’s degree from Central New Mexico Community College. Zakery also runs and practices film photography for pleasure.