Her work appeared in Zyzzyva[1] Michelle T. Clinton was born in 1955 and grew up in a socio-economically challenged South Central Los Angeles family.
A performance artist and poet, Clinton described her work as "an attempt to assimilate the racist & sexist violence in my body.
"Through her poems, Clinton said, she has found expression for 'a lot of emotion that there’s no place to put in the world…How do you deal with a rape that happened 10 years ago?
Although Clinton disappeared from the Los Angeles creative scene in the mid-1990s, it is not hard to see the impact that her work and her presence had in the area.
It is challenging to find information about her online, but she is referenced numerous times among histories of the poets of the Los Angeles literary scene of the 1980s and '90s.
Based on self-reports from artists active at that time in the city, it is safe to surmise that she was a key figure in the Los Angeles performance arts scene of the 1980s and 1990s.