Rebecca O. Johnson is a writer and social change activist. She was born in Akron, Ohio and currently lives in Dorchester, Massachusetts, where she is completing Love’s Bright Fire, a work chronicling the lives of African American men born in the early 20th century. She is a writer transitioning from a lifetime of community organizing, with her MFA in creative nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College, as well as an MS in community economic development and a BS in human services, both from Southern New Hampshire University. Her writings appear online on her blog Urban Ecology (urbanecology.blogspot.com) and at her website, rebeccaojohnson.net, and her publications include work in Callaloo and the Women’s Review of Books. Rebeccca’s contribution to Submerged, “A Brief History of My Nappy Head,” reflects on a lifetime of hairstyle mandates and choices she faced as an African American woman.
contributor, Submerged: Tales from the Basin