Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond 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 cum laude graduate of Vassar College, she attended secondary school in Ghana, Powder Necklace is loosely based on that experience. She is the author of the children's story: Blue: A HISTORY OF THE COLOR AS DEEP AS THE SEA AND AS WIDE AS THE SKY.