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About Ibis Gómez-Vega
- Ibis del Carmen Gómez-Vega (born 20 December 1952) is a Latina novelist, short story writer, playwright, and literary critic. Gómez-Vega was born in Havana, Cuba, to Angela Vega-Gonzalez and Rodolfo Gómez-Oramas.
- She attended the Colorado Women's College, between 1972-73.
- Subsequently, she attended the University of Houston, where she earned her B.A.
- in 1976, M.A.
- in 1979, and Ph.D.
- in 1995.
- Her dissertation was titled "The Journey Home: Caribbean Women Writers Face the Wreckage of History." Gómez-Vega began teaching college courses as a graduate student at the University of Houston in 1978.
- Since 1995, she has taught at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, where she is an associate professor of English.
- She teaches Twentieth-Century American Literature, Ethnic Literature, American Drama, Gay and Lesbian Literature.
- In addition to her creative writing, Gómez-Vega has contributed numerous articles, reviews, and essays to such publications as Intertexts, Voces: Journal of Chicana / Latina Studies, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, The Americas Review, MMLA: The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Crítica Hispánica, The Southern Quarterly, Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, and American Drama.
- She continues to write and perform readings from her works.
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