Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond

Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond is the author of “Powder Necklace” (Washington Square Press, 2010). Her work also appears in “Everyday People: The Color of Life” and “New Daughters of Africa.”

Brew-Hammond was a 2019 Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow, a 2018 Aké Arts and Book Festival Guest Author, a 2017 Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar, a 2016 Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence, and a 2015 Rhode Island Writers Colony Writer-in-Residence.

She co-leads a writing fellowship at Manhattan's Center for Faith and Work.