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Dessa

Dessa, born Margret Wander in Minneapolis in 1981, is a rapper, singer and writer and a member of the Doomtree collective. After the 2005 EP False Hopes she released the albums A Badly Broken Code (2010), Parts of Speech (2013), Chime (2018) and Bury the Lede (2023), plus Sound the Bells, recorded live with the Minnesota Orchestra (2019). Dutton published her essay collection My Own Devices in 2018.

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Dessa singing into a microphone on a stand under a blue spotlight
Photo: Andy Witchger, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Dessa False Hopes

Dessa's first record was an unofficial five-song EP in Doomtree's False Hopes series. At fifteen minutes, it already sets out the writer she became.

Elmo Phelge · 23 Oct 2026