Alyssa Robbins is an HIV/AIDS educator for The NiteStar Program, a not-for-profit health education theatre company on New York’s Upper West Side. She was born in Washington, DC and graduated from New School University with a BA in nonfiction writing. Alyssa was the recipient of the award for Best Nonfiction Writer of 2003 from Eugene Lang College. She has released two CDs independently, with a third on the way. Her contribution to Submerged is “The Hair Down There,” a piece about pubic hair and how our views of sexuality change with age. Listen to her music online at myspace.com/alyssaclarerobbins.
contributor, Submerged: Tales from the Basin