Verónica Murguía (born 1960) is a Mexican fantasy writer who has won multiple prizes for her children's literature and novels.

She studied history at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and then began working as an illustrator.

[1] Her first publications in 1990 were a novel entitled "Rosendo" and "Historia y aventuras de Taté el mago y Clarisel la cuentera", which won the National Short Story Prize for Children Juan de la Cabada.

[3] In 1999, Murguía began writing a bi-weekly column for La Jornada's cultural supplement.

[4] In addition, she has published journalism pieces in Etcétera and Laberinto Urbano; hosted the educational radio program “Desde acá los chilangos”; participated in an educational program for indigenous children in Oaxaca, Sonora and Yucatán; and taught children's literature at the Mexican Writer's Guild (SOGEM).