Powder Necklace

Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond has written for AOL, Parenting Magazine, the Village Voice, Metro and Trace Magazine. Her short story ?Bush Girl? ws 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 Assitant,? 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 the experience.