Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond is the author of the children’s picture book BLUE: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky (Knopf BFYR), illustrated by Caldecott Honor Artist Daniel Minter. BLUE is on the 2023-2024 Texas Bluebonnet Master List, has been honored with the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award® recognizing excellence in the writing of non-fiction for children, and is an NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literature for Children. Brew-Hammond also wrote the young adult novel POWDER NECKLACE (Atria), which Publishers Weekly called “a winning debut”, and she edited RELATIONS: An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices (Harper Via). Kirkus Reviews called the anthology “smart, generous…a true gift” in its starred review. Her newest novel, MY PARENTS’ MARRIAGE (Amistad), is available everywhere books are sold. Every month, Brew-Hammond co-leads a writing fellowship whose mission is to write light into the darkness.
