Ibis del Carmen Gómez-Vega (born 20 December 1952) is a Cuban-American Latina novelist, short story writer, playwright, and literary critic.
[1] Gómez-Vega was born in the back of a taxi cab Havana, Cuba,[2] to Angela Vega-Gonzalez and Rodolfo Gómez-Oramas.
Her dissertation was titled "The Journey Home: Caribbean Women Writers Face the Wreckage of History.
[3]" 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.