1942 – Birth on  September 24th 1942, Gloria Alzaldua was born in a small town south of texas, in Rio Grande Valley to Urbano and Amalia Anzaldúa.

1968 – Gloria received a Bachelor in English, Art from the University of Texas–Pan American

In college she joined active cultural poets and radical dramatists such as Hedwig Gorski, and Ricardo Sanchez.

1977 – Gloria moves to California, where she supported herself through her writing, lectures, and occasional teaching students about feminism, Chicano studies, and creative writing at San Francisco State University, the University of California, and other universities.

1981 – Gloria co-edits This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

1987 – She writes the semi-autobiographical Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

2004 – Death in 2004 she was close to completing the book manuscript, Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality.