Gomez, Jewelle, 1948- (Personal Name)

Her The Gilda stories, c1991: CIP t.p. (Jewelle Gomez) t.p. verso (Jewelle L. Gomez) data sheet (b. 9-11-48)

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, accessed April 22, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Gomez, Jewelle; poet, novelist, essayist, educator, political activist, gay rights activist; born 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States; BA from Northeastern University (1971); MS from Columbia University School of Journalism (1973); was a stage manager for Off-Broadway plays (1971-1981) and director of the Literature Program for the New York State Council on the Arts (1989-1993); her first novel Gilda Stories (1991) won two Lambda Literary Awards for Lesbian Fiction and Lesbian Science Fiction/Fantasy (1991); received Beard's Fund (1985) and Barbara Deming (1990) awards)

Individual was a political activist and gay rights activist.