Gloria Muñoz (she/her) is a Colombian American writer, literary translator, and an outspoken advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of This Is the Year, which was selected as a Booklist Editor’s Choice, Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best for Teen Fiction, ALA’s YASLA Best Fiction for Young Adults, Children’s Book Council's Best New Book, New York Public Library’s Read Harder Challenge selection, and Book Riot’s Most Exciting YA of 2025. Her next novel They Called Us Wicked is forthcoming from Holiday House in September 2026.

Her translation of Juan Vidal’s A Second Chance on Earth, Una Secunda Oportunidad Sobre la Tierra, was recently chosen to be NEA’s Read Across America’s Book of the Month. Gloria is also the author of the poetry collections Your Biome Has Found You and Danzirly, which won the Academy of American Poets Ambroggio Prize and the Florida Book Award for Poetry. An Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow, Gloria’s writing has also been supported by fellowships from Hedgebrook, Esperimento Sul Respiro, Macondo, New York Writers Institute, Lunima’s Multilingual Prose Award, Cagibi's Poetry Award, Muse, Tin House, Museum of Motherhood, Las Musas, and the Highlights Foundation Diverse Verse Program.

Gloria's poetry and prose appear in anthologies for young readers and adults including Onward, Read Water, Spinning Toward the Sun, Going Om, and Best New Poets, and published in the Rumpus, Acentos Review, American Poets, Cherry Tree, Lumina, Cagibi, and Puerto del Sol, among others. Through Moonlit Música, a bilingual media company she cofounded, she writes narrative scripts and songs for children, adolescent, and adult programming. Notable clients include The New York Times, Comedy Central, hulu, Rebel Girls, Apple tv, Google, FX, and Hatch, for which she has developed beloved sleep story characters, including Mari Mariposa, a bilingual butterfly with a passion for community building.

A former academic, Gloria is now part of the faculty at Boyd Mills, she teaches writing workshops with nonprofits, and speaks through Pande Lectures. Gloria is proud to have served as St. Pete, Florida's first Latina poet laureate. She now lives, writes, teaches, and plants community gardens with her family in Minneapolis.