Maite studied Fine Arts at the University of the Basque Country and the University of Barcelona. After graduating, and in the same city, she pursued illustration studies at the Escola de la Dona.

She began working as an illustrator in 2008. Since then, she has illustrated books for children, young people, and adults. She has also applied illustration to other formats such as posters, planners, press publications, cards, apps, murals, records, etc.

Over the years, her work has been recognized with various awards, such as the Etxepare Prize for Illustrated Albums in 2009 for the picture book Alex, nire laguna, with text by Mikel Gurrutxaga, a project that also received a special mention at that year’s Lazarillo Prize for Illustrated Albums; the Euskadi Prize for Literature in Illustration of Literary Work for the comic Habiak / Nidos in 2014; and in 2015, the Lazarillo Prize for Illustrated Albums for the project Martín, with text by Alaine Agirre. More recently, in 2023, she won, together with Mikel Gurrutxaga, the 1st Miguel Calatayud Villa de Aspe Illustrated Album Prize for the work Lo mucho que tengo.

Her illustrations have also been selected several times (2013, 2017, 2019, 2023, and 2025) to participate in the Bratislava Illustration Biennial and Illustrating Life Beijing (2017 and 2019). Some of the works she has had the opportunity to illustrate have been translated into Korean, Slovenian, Catalan, and Portuguese.

In 2026, her illustrations for the work Tapakia were selected to take part in The Illustrators Exhibition at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.