Summer Brennan is the author of
The Oyster War, a finalist for the Orion Book Award and the Northern California Book Award, and the critically acclaimed book-length essay
High Heel. She is a recipient of the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award and her work has appeared in
Granta, The Paris Review,
McSweeneys, New York Magazine, Scientific American, and elsewhere. Her newsletter
A Writer's Notebook is a Substack bestseller and was a featured publication in 2023. Her next book
The Parisian Sphinx, a biography of Victorine Meurent, is forthcoming from Mariner. She lives in Paris.
