Her fiction and poetry is included in over one hundred anthologies including the first anthology of Black speculative fiction, Dark Matter: A Century of African American Speculative Fiction, from Warner Books, edited by Sheree R. Her other books include Don't Explain, a collection of short fiction 43 Septembers, a collection of personal/political essays Oral Tradition, poems collected and new. The book, which remains in print, was also issued by the Quality Paperback Book Club in an edition including the play. cities performed by the Urban Bush Women Company (1996). She also authored the theatrical adaptation of the novel Bones and Ash which toured 13 U.S. According to scholar, Elyce Rae Helford, "Each stage of Gilda's personal voyage is also a study of life as part of multiple communities, all at the margins of mainstream white middle-class America." (UTOPIAN STUDIES, 3.22.01) This novel, which reframes the traditional vampire mythology, taking a lesbian feminist perspective, is an adventure about an escaped slave who comes of age over two hundred years. Gomez is the author of seven books, but is most known for the double Lambda Literary Award winning novel The Gilda Stories (Firebrand Books, 1991). Her work lives at the intersection of these multiple ethnicities, the ideals of lesbian/feminism and class. More recent writing has begun to reflect her Native American (Ioway, Wampanoag) heritage. She was a member of the Conditions (magazine) Collective, a lesbian feminist literary magazine. There she became involved in lesbian feminist activism and magazine publication. Subsequent years in New York City placed her at the heart of Black theatre including work with the Frank Silvera Writers Workshop and many years as a stage manager for off Broadway productions. Her high school and college years were ripe with Black political and social movements which is reflected in much of her writing. Their history of independence as well as marginalization in an African American community are threaded throughout her work. Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s she was shaped socially and politically by the close family ties with her great grandmother, Grace and grandmother Lydia. Morandus, a Wampanoag and descendent of Massasoit, the sachem for whom Massachusetts was named. Grace returned to New England before she was 14 when her father died and was married to John E.
Gomez was raised by her great grandmother, Grace, who was born on Indian land in Iowa to an African American mother and Ioway father. 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American writer and cultural worker.
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