Background
Ibis Gomez-Vega was born on December 20, 1952, in Havana, Cuba. She is the daughter of Angela Vega-Gonzalez and Rodolfo Gomez-Oramas.
Ibis attended the Colorado Women's College, between 1972-1973.
Ibis attended the University of Houston, where she earned her Bacher of Arts in 1976, Master of Arts in 1979, and Ph.D. in 1995.
Ibis Gomez-Vega was born on December 20, 1952, in Havana, Cuba. She is the daughter of Angela Vega-Gonzalez and Rodolfo Gomez-Oramas.
Ibis attended the Colorado Women's College, between 1972-1973. Subsequently she attended the University of Houston, where she earned her Bacher of Arts in 1976, Master of Arts in 1979, and Ph.D. in 1995.
Gomez-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.
Ibis is also the author of short stories and a frequent contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including Intertexts, Voces: Journal of Chicana, Journal of Political and Military' Sociology, and Americas Review. She wrote a play, Raise a Crow, which was given a staged reading by Theater Rhinoceros in San Francisco in 1985 and by At the Foot of the Mountain in Minneapolis in 1984.
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1991Ibis is a member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, AMIGA: Latina Lesbians, ABBA Fan Club.