In 2023, Gloria Muñoz was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Muñoz will launch the City of Writers Lab, which aims to connect youth and emerging poets with working writers through a series of programs including an after-school poetry and art program with NOMADstudio at the Pinellas Regional Juvenile Detention Center; a series of multigenerational community conversations with St. Pete Youth Farm featuring a poet and a local farmer, farmworker, or food activist; and workshops at Tombolo Books.