Rebecca O. Johnson
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A Brief History of My Nappy Head appears in the anthology Submerged: Tales From The Basin. Join me for a reading and learn more about this very special volume Sept. 15, 2008 at CUNY in New York City.
Lonesome Refugees, a reflection on floods, the blues and Hurricane Katrina is in the most recent edition of Callaloo A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters.
One of the most surprising things to me, as a writer, is how some works get legs, even if the author knows nothing about it. My piece,New Moon Over Roxbury, is apparently being taught in a couple places and has garnered me an invitation to speak at an Earth Day Event at Boston University. New Moon first appeared in Ecofeminism and the Sacred, Carol Adams, ed; and most recently (as far as I know) been reprinted in City Wild, Terrell Dixon, ed.
Here's an interview I did with Octavia Butler back in 1994. It appeared in Sojourner: The Women's Forum (of happy memory).

I always wanted to write about hair angst so when Lauren Gonzalez invited me to contribute to Submerged I jumped at the chance.
A percentage of proceeds will benefit ongoing efforts to support Hurricane Katrina survivors.
Watch this site for upcoming readings in New Orleans and, maybe, Brooklyn and Boston. You can get your copy at Stepsister Press.
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Rebecca O. Johnson
rebecca