Miguel Hernandez Gilabert (Orihuela, October 12, 1910 – Alicante, March 28, 1942) was a playwright and poet. A self-taught student, he independently read his masters, the great authors of the Golden Age, especially Luis de Góngora. He began writing poetry around 1925. His source of inspiration for these early verses was his surroundings: nature, shepherding… Some newspapers began to publish his poems. The first to be published was Pastoral, The Town of Orihuela.

In the 1930s he moved to Madrid. There he wrote for several publications and established relationships with poets of the time. He worked as an editor for Cossío's bullfighting dictionary and for the Pedagogical Missions, in addition to collaborating on Western MagazineUpon his return to Orihuela, he wrote his first book. Expert in Moons.

During the Civil War, he sided with the Republican faction. After the Francoist victory, he was sentenced to death, but the intervention of his intellectual friends led to his capital punishment being commuted to thirty years in prison. He died in the infirmary of Alicante prison at only 31 years of age from tuberculosis.

The poetry collections are his. The lightning that never stops (1936) Wind of the people. Poetry in war (1937) Six unpublished poems and nine more (1951) Selected Works (1952) Songbook and ballads of absences (1958) o Man stalks (1961). Among his dramatic works, the following stand out: Who has seen you and who sees you now, a shadow of what you once were (1929) The bravest bullfighter (1935) The farmer with more air (1937) Theater in war (1937) and The shepherd of death (1938).