Myriam Gurba (born 1976 or 1977) is an American writer, critic, and visual artist. She is the author of the memoir Mean (2017), named by The New York Times as one of the best memoirs of 2017 and included by O, The Oprah Magazine among the "Best LGBTQ Books Ever," and the essay collection Creep: Accusations and Confessions (2023), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and winner of the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. In 2019, her critique of Jeanine Cummins's novel American Dirt, published in Tropics of Meta, went viral and helped spark national debate about race, representation, and publishing practices in the United States. Following the controversy, she co-founded #DignidadLiteraria, a campaign advocating for greater inclusion of Latinx writers in the publishing industry.
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