Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, a native of Ghana, is the author of the groundbreaking memoir, Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression (Norton/Ballantine). She is the editor of Becoming American: Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women (Hyperion) and Shaking the Tree: New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women (Norton). Ms. Danquah's poetry, fiction, essays and articles have appeared in numerous anthologies, journals, magazines and newspapers such as onthebus, storie, the Washington Post, the Village Voice, the Los Angeles Times, Emerge, Allure, Essence, Los Angeles Magazine and the LA Weekly. Her commentaries and audio essays can be heard regularly on National Public Radio. Ms. Danquah, who has been the recipient of several awards and grants, is currently writing a memoir on immigration for Seven Stories and a young adult novel for Orchard/Scholastic. She lives Los Angeles.