In 1993, Tommy Boy records released an album by a young female rapper from Brooklyn named LeShaun. It’s called 'Wide Open' Read More
Author Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela
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Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. And though she’s also paid some sort of rent in Lawrence, Detroit, D.C., Laramie, Havana and the Mexican state of Chiapas, Philadelphia has mostly been her home since 2000. Her poetry and prose has been supported by the work of The Leeway Foundation, Hedgebrook, Art Farm, Fancyland, VONA/Voices, Lambda, Make/shift, As Us, The Rust Belt Rising, Solstice, Aster(ix), Big Bell and others. She is the fiction editor at APIARY magazine and the founder of Thread Makes Blanket press www.threadmakesblanket.com. She teaches at Community College of Philadelphia.
