Ermilo Abreu Gómez was a writer, journalist and lecturer born in Mérida, Yucatán, México. He was a member of the Mexican Academy of Language from 1963. He was also a professor in several universities in the United States. He died in Mexico City in 1971.

Pamela González Alvarez , also known as Pam Allier, is a Mexican-born lifestyle blogger, fashion designer, and social media personality. Born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico, Allier first gained media attention on Instagram in 2014 with her street style photos. She started the fashion blog pamallier.com soon after. She was a contributing writer for Harper's Bazaar Mexico & Latin America Online for a year and noted as one of "The Best Latinas to follow on Instagram" according to Cosmopolitan Magazine.

Xhevdet Bajraj is an ethnic Albanian Kosovar poet and screenwriter now residing in Mexico.

Adela Calva Reyes was an indigenous Mexican writer, author and playwright of the Otomi people.

Federico Campbell Quiroz, known as Federico Campbell, was a writer from northern Mexico. Campbell is known for the short story collection Tijuanenses. In 2000, he won the Colima Prize for Fiction with his novel Transpeninsular. In 1995, he was awarded the J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship. Campbell translated works by Harold Pinter, David Mamet, and Leonardo Sciascia, among others, into Spanish.

José Eduardo de Cárdenas (1765–1821) was a priest, theologist, politician, poet and writer of New Spain.

Gonzalo Celorio Blasco is a writer and an academic and former director of the Fondo de Cultura Económica. Celorio has written two novels, Amor Propio, a coming-of-age story and Y retiemble en sus centros la Tierra.
Alberto Chimal is a Mexican writer. He also coordinates and teaches literary workshops, and is an authority on the subject of literature on the Internet and digital writing.

Jorge Galván is a Mexican writer and engineer. He is best known for his historical novel "El Hierro y la Pólvora", for which he was awarded the First Novel UNAM – Alfaguara Prize in 2006

Juan García Ponce was a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, translator and critic of Mexican art.
Francesca Gargallo is a Mexican writer and poet. She studied philosophy in her native Italy at the Università degli studi di Roma and then at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Gargallo. A naturalized Mexican citizen, she has lived in the country since 1979. She has written many poetry books and novels such as; Calla mi amor que vivo, Estar en el mundo, La decisión del capitán, Marcha seca among others. Gargallo has published in magazines such as Proceso and El Comité 1973.
Fray Ángel María Garibay Kintana was a Mexican Roman Catholic priest, philologist, linguist, historian, and scholar of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, specifically of the Nahua peoples of the central Mexican highlands. He is particularly noted for his studies and translations of conquest-era primary source documents written in Classical Nahuatl, the lingua franca of Postclassic central Mexico and the then-dominant Aztec empire. Alongside his former student Miguel León-Portilla, Garibay ranks as one of the pre-eminent Mexican authorities on the Nahuatl language and its literary heritage, and as one who has made a significant contribution towards the promotion and preservation of the indigenous cultures and languages of Mexico.

Elena Garro was a Mexican screenwriter, journalist, dramaturg, short story writer, and novelist. She has been described as the initiator of the Magical Realism movement, though she rejected this affiliation. She is a recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.

Francisco González Bocanegra was a Mexican poet who wrote the lyrics of the Mexican National Anthem in 1853.

Manuel María del Pilar Eduardo de Gorostiza y Cepeda was a Mexican Spanish writer, dramatist and diplomat. He was the son of Pedro Fernández de Gorostiza, governor of the port of Veracruz, and the poet Rosario Cepeda.

Olga Harmony was a Mexican playwright and a drama teacher at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria.

Natalio Hernández Hernández, also known as Natalio Hernández Xocoyotzin and by the pseudonym José Antonio Xokoyotsij, is a Mexican Nahua intellectual and poet, from Lomas del Dorado, Ixhuatlan de Madero the state of Veracruz. He is a founder of the Asociación de los Escritores en Lenguas Indígenas, the Casa de los Escritores en Lenguas Indígenas, and the Alianza Nacional de Profesionales Indígenas Bilingües. Since 2013 he is a corresponding member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, the Mexican Language Academy.

Hernán Lara Zavala is a Mexican novelist, literary critic and academic at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Germán List Arzubide was a Mexican poet and revolutionary.
María Guadalupe Loaeza Tovar is a contemporary Mexican writer, author of many books including Las Niñas Bien, Las Reinas de Polanco, Debo, Luego Sufro and Compro, Luego Existo, in which she ironizes about the Mexican upper class. A participant in Elena Poniatowska's writing workshops in the mid-1980s, she has transformed her success as a chronicler, observer, and critic of the Mexican bourgeoisie and the post-1985 democratization of Mexico into a successful career. Known for her trademark pearl necklace and for her francophile tendencies, she has become an influential cultural figure. Some of her books are compilations of her articles published in newspapers such as Unomásuno and La Jornada. She was born in Mexico City. She had two children from her first marriage. In 2003, Guadalupe Loaeza received the distinction of Chevalier from the Légion d'Honneur of France.

Joaquín López-Dóriga Velandia is a Spanish Mexican journalist. He started working as a journalist for the daily El Heraldo de México at the age of 18, and two years later he joined Jacobo Zabludovsky in the television news program 24 Horas. In 1988 he was appointed news director of the Instituto Mexicano de la Televisión (Imevisión).

Luis David Palacios is a poet, writer, translator and editor who specialises in musical studies.

Tryno Maldonado is a Mexican writer. He was born in Zacatecas, México. In 2006, he was named by the Colombian magazine Gatopardo as one of the best young writers in Latin America. His published work includes the novel Temporada de caza para el león negro which was nominated for the Premio Herralde. He has also edited an anthology of new Mexican writing. Recenetly has spent time with Zapatista movement and Marichuy indigenous politician and the Ayotzinapa family victims.

Ignacio Mariscal was a Mexican liberal lawyer, politician, writer, and diplomat. He was named Secretary of Foreign Affairs in 1871–72, for the first time during the Benito Juárez administration. During the Porfirio Diaz's government, he held the office in 1880–83 and 1885–1910. In 1909, he was the President of Mexican Academy of the Language.

Carlos Montemayor was a Mexican novelist, poet, essayist, literary critic, tenor, political analyst, and promoter of contemporary literature written in indigenous languages. He was a Member of the Mexican Academy of the Language.

Fabio Morábito is a Mexican writer and poet.

Guadalupe Nettel is a Mexican writer. She won the Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero and the Premio Herralde literary awards. She has been a contributor to Granta, The White Review, El Pais, The New York Times en Español, La Repubblica and La Stampa. Her works have been translated to 17 languages. She is the editor of the Revista de la Universidad de México, the oldest cultural magazine in Mexico.

Edmée Pardo Murray is a Mexican writer and narrator.

Fernando del Paso Morante audio (help·info) was a Mexican novelist, essayist and poet.
Carlos Pellicer Cámara, born in Villahermosa, Tabasco, was part of the first wave of modernist Mexican poets and was active in the promotion of Mexican art, pictures, and literature. An enthusiastic traveler, his work is filled with depictions of nature and a certain sexual energy that is shared with his contemporary Octavio Paz.

Ernesto de la Peña was a Mexican writer, translator and cultural advocate. Peña was also a linguist who studied thirty-three languages, as varied as Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Sanskrit. He joined the Mexican Academy of the Language in 1993 and was a member of the Royal Spanish Language Academy.

José Joaquín Pesado Pérez was a Mexican writer, journalist, poet and politician. He was born in San Agustín del Palmar, Puebla, in 1801 and died in Mexico City in 1861. In 1822, he married María de la Luz de la Llave y Segura, and Juana Segura Argüelles twenty years later.

Gerardo Horacio Porcayo Villalobos, is a Mexican science fiction and fantasy writer. Porcayo's novel, La primera calle de la soledad is considered to be the first example of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction in Iberoamerican literature. He currently works at the Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla.

Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez was a Spanish-born Mexican philosopher, writer and professor born in Algeciras, Andalucia.

Paco Ignacio Taibo I, was a prolific Spanish-Mexican writer and journalist.

Ramón Xirau Subías was a Spanish-born Mexican poet, philosopher and literary critic.

Luis Zapata Quiroz was one of the most prominent gay writers in Mexican literature.