Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond

Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond is an American-Ghanaian writer of novels, short stories and a poet. She has written for AOL, Parenting Magazine, the Village Voice, Metro and Trace Magazine. Her short story "Bush Girl" was published in the May 2008 issues of African Writing and her poem "The Whinings of a Seven Sister Cum Laude Graduate Working Board as an Assistant" was published in 2006's Growing up Girl Anthology. A graduate of Vassar College in the United States, she attended secondary school in Ghana, and her 2010 young-adult book Powder Necklace is loosely based on that experience. In 2014, she was chosen as one of 39 of Sub-Saharan Africa's most promising writers under the age of 40, showcased in the Africa39 project and included in the anthology Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara. She is also a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.