Guest Speaker

GLORIA MUÑOZ

Gloria Muñoz is the author of the novel This is the Year and the poetry collections Your Biome Has Found You and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Florida Gold Medal Book Award for Poetry. A Colombian American literary translator and advocate for multilingual literature, Muñoz is an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow, a Hedgebrook Fellow, a Macondista, a Highlights Foundation Diverse Verse Fellow, and an active part of Las Musas. She lives with her family in St. Pete, Florida, where she serves as poet laureate. Visit her online at gloriamunoz.com and on Instagram at @bygloriamunoz.