GLORIA MUÑOZ

writer + translator + advocate for multilingual literacy

Located Near: St. Petersburg, FL

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speaking topics

Speculative Fiction, Diaspora, and Climate
Climate change & YA Literature
Hope in Speculative Fiction
Multilingual Literacy
Translation
Ecopoetics
Poetry

Writing What Scares You
Me Too, Now What? Writing About Sexual Assault
Debut year prep & journey to publication
Research the Past to Write the Future: historical fiction and world building workshops
Everything Is A Metaphor
Writing Outside of Academia

Community Building and Literary Stewardship
Dreaming Big and Pursuing the Arts as a First Generation American and College Grad
Writing Motherhood
Maintaining a Creative Practice as a mother
Hybrid work
Poetry For Occasion or Being a Poet Laureate

event types

KEYNOTES
LECTURES
FIRESIDE CHATS
PANELS
WORKSHOPS
BOOK TALKS & READINGS
VIRTUAL EVENTS
MODERATION
FESTIVALS
INTERVIEWS
International events
writing conferences
Residencies

Gloria Muñoz is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of This is the Year, Your Biome Has Found You, and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, and a part of Las Musas. She is proud to be St. Pete's first Latina poet laureate.

Her writing has been anthologized most recently by A24 and has appeared in American Poetry, MagazinePuerto del Sol, VIDA Review, Acentos Review, Lumina, the Rumpus, Yes Poetry, Juke Joint, Best New Poets, Sweet, Burrow Press, Cosmonauts Avenue, Entropy, Wildness, Cagibi, and elsewhere. Muñoz is also the author of the chapbook Your Biome Has Found You. She holds degrees from Sarah Lawrence College and the University of South Florida. A proponent of cross-disciplinary collaboration, Gloria has worked alongside botanists, musicians, dancers, historians, classicists, visual artists, conservationists, and neuroscientists.

Through Moonlit Música, a bilingual media company she co-founded, 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.