Muñoz, Gloria
Entry updated 15 September 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1987- ) US poet, translator and author of Colombian ancestry whose first novel, This Is the Year (2025), atmospherically depicts the sensory and broader effects of Climate Change in Near-Future Florida upon its Young-Adult cast. The protagonist, stricken by the death of her twin sister in a car crash, is given the chance to join a privatized mission to the Moon on a five-year mission to prepare for the first settlers. Muñoz's alternating use of Poetry and prose humanizes a sense that the world may be too big for the tale's protagonist. [JC]
Gloria Muñoz
born St Petersburg, Florida: 1 September 1987
works (selected)
- This Is the Year (New York: Holiday House, 2025)
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