Margarita Michelena (July 21, 1917, Pachuca, Hidalgo – March 27, 1998, Mexico City) was a Mexican poet, literary critic, translator and journalist.

Her parents were Spaniards who had lived some time in France before coming to Mexico.

In 1980 she founded the newspaper Cotidiano, produced by and for women and presenting the news from a female point of view.

Octavio Paz: "Sus poemas son torres esbeltas, construcciones intelectuales de una sensibilidad inteligente."

(Her poems are slender towers, intellectual constructions of intelligent sensibility.)