Alexis Gómez Rosa was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1950. He studied at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo and the Univeristy of Massachesetts in Boston. Since 1985 he has lived in New York where he received his masters degree in literature at SUNY in 1988. His poetic work has been praised by numerous critical essays and anthologies about Spanish poetry.

He has published the following chapbooks: Oficio de post-muerto (Williamsburg Printshop, Brooklyn, NY 1973, Editora Alfa & Omega, Santo Domingo, R.D., 1976); Pluróscopo (Ediciones Ahora!, Santo Domingo, R.D.,1977); High Quality, Ltd. (Santo Domingo, 1985); Contra la puma la espuma (Editora Taller, Santo Domingo, Rep.Dominicana, 1990). These last two were part of a poetry collection, Luna Cabeza Caliente (1981).

Recently, the publishing house Lluvia of Lima, Perú published an anthology of his work under the title Tiza y Tinta.

Currently, Alexis Gomez Rosa is a doctoral candidate in hispanic literature at New York University.