Gloria Gervitz (1943–2022) was born in Mexico City. Her work as a poet for almost 50 years was one enormous poem, Migraciones , which she finally completed in 2020. An interim version was published by Shearsman in 2004 in Mark Schafer's translation (US edition by Junction Press); the final version appeared from NYRB Poets in 2021, although the original text had already appeared in Mexico and in Spain by that time.

Gloria Gervitz studied history at the Universidad Iberoamericana, and translated into Spanish the works of Anna Akhmatova, Margarite Yourcenar, Samuel Beckett and Clarice Lispector, among others. In 1992/3 she was awarded a stipend by the Fondo Nacional de Creadores Artísticos (National Fund for Creative Artists). Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies in Mexico and the USA, and has been translated into several languages. In 2011 she was awarded the Mexico PEN Prize for Literary Excellence, which she richly deserved.

She spent her final years in California.