Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (September 26, 1942 – May 15, 2004) is self-described “chicana dyke-feminist, tejana patlache poet, writer, and cultural theorist »

Anzaldúa was born in Jesús María Ranch in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas as the oldest of four siblings. Throughout her childhood, her parents moved their family to various ranches working as migrant farmers. After her studies she became a teacher and a lecturer. From her life and experience, she developed theories about the marginal, in-between, translation and mixed cultures that develop along borders, including on the concepts of Nepantla, Coyoxaulqui imperative, new tribalism, and spiritual activism. She wrote « This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981), and Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), Lights in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscar: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (2015).