Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond (born October 5) is an American-Ghanaian writer of novels, short stories and a poet.
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.
[7] In 2010, Brew-Hammond's young adult novel Powder Necklace was published, a coming-of-age story that draws on some of her own experiences.
[8] She is also the author of Blue: A History of the Color As Deep As the Sea and as Wide as the Sky, a children's picture book, illustrated by Daniel Minter, that was published in 2022, as was Relations: An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices, of which she was editor.
[9][10][11] In 2014, Brew-Hammond was selected as one of the most promising African authors under 39 featured in the Hay Festival-Rainbow Book Club Project Africa39, in celebration of UNESCO's designation of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, as 2014 World Book Capital, and her story "Mama's Future" was included in the associated anthology edited by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara (Bloomsbury).