Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, a native Ghanaian, is author of the groundbreaking memoir, Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression, and editor of three critically anthologies:  Becoming American:  Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women, Shaking the Tree:  New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women, and most recently, The Black Body.  She is also a poet, public speaker, and radio commentator.  Danquah divides her time between Los Angeles, California and Accra, Ghana.