Summer Brenner

Summer Brenner is the author of a dozen works of poetry and fiction. DUST is her first work of nonfiction. Summer Brenner was raised in Atlanta, went east to Boston for college, lived in Italy and France, and eventually moved west to New Mexico and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her dozen+ books include stories and novellas from Coffee House Press, Red Hen, and Spuyten Duyvil; noir novels from PM Press and Gallimard Série noire; poetry from The Figures; and a memoir. Brenner has written social justice fiction for youth used in Bay Area schools and the Common Core. This work has had theatrical productions; won awards for historical preservation and human rights from the cities of Oakland and Richmond, CA; and was selected by the California Association of Teachers for “Read Across America.” Her writing has appeared in dozens of literary magazines and anthologies (including Jewish Noir, Berkeley Noir, and Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas). She has given scores of readings across the US, as well as in France and Japan. Her archive may be found at the University of Delaware, Special Collections.