Bonnie Richardson was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and is a lifelong Midwesterner now living in Chicago. Bonnie wrote “Ethnic Hair Extra,” a story about a black teen girl getting her first professional haircut at a white salon, for Submerged. The title refers to the practice of charging extra for working on black women’s hair in white salons, and the story captures an overlapping of concerns regarding style, money, and culture in a salon. This is Bonnie’s first published piece, with many to come in the future. (photo credit Leslie Nash)
contributor, Submerged: Tales from the Basin