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 bornin 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.

Novels

• Send My Roots Rain.San Francisco: Aunt Lute Press, 1991.

Short stories

• "La Tortillera." The Bilingual Review 25.3 (2000): 306-314.
• "Other People's Memories."VOCES: A Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies 3.1&2 (2001): 254-271. Refereed.
• "Telling Ribbons."VOCES: A Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies 3.1&2 (2001): 272-292.
• "Telling Ribbons." The Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly 1.1 (1999): 41-61.
• "Unnatural Acts." VOCES: A Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies 2.1 (1998): 23-41.

Plays

• Raise a Crow, given a staged reading by Theater Rhinoceros in San Francisco in 1985 and by At the Foot of the Mountain in Minneapolis in 1984.

• Sabiha Sorgun, "Seeing What Is Invisible to the Eye: Postmodern Spirituality in Ibis Gómez-Vega's Send My Roots Rain."Crítica Hispánica 30.1-2 (2008): 174-91.
• Troy-Smith, Jean."A Weave of Women in Send My Roots Rain by Ibis Gómez-Vega."Called to Healing: Reflections on the Power of Earth's Stories in Women's Lives.New York: State University of New York Press, 1996.143-69.