Bio

Gris Muñoz is an Indigenous Chicana poet and storyteller. She is the author of the bilingual poetry and short-story collection, Coatlicue Girl, named a finalist for the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry by the Texas Institute of Letters. Her poetry and essays have been published by The Rumpus, Huizache, Tasteful Rude and The Smithsonian Latino Center among others and she has been featured by The Texas Book Festival, The Big Read New Mexico alongside Joy Harjo, and the Latino Collection & Resource Center at San Antonio Public Library in collaboration with Texas Public Radio. Gris was born and raised in El Paso, Texas and writes about the border, the politicized body and Indigenous Mexican and Folk Curanderismo. She is of Northern Chihuahuan Apache and Yaqui descent.