Summer Brenner

• NEWS

• WORKS
• Dust, A Memoir
• The Missing Lover
• My Life in Clothes
• One Minute Movies
• Dancers and the Dance
• From the Heart to the Center
• The Soft Room
• Everyone Came Dressed As Water

• WORKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
• Oakland Tales, Lost Secrets of The Town
• Ivy, Homeless in San Francisco
• Richmond Tales, Lost Secrets of the Iron Triangle

• CRIME NOVELS
• I-5
• Nearly Nowhere
• Presque nulle part

• REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS
• Memoir, Non-fiction
• Crime Novels
• Fiction and Poetry
• Works for Young People

• COMMUNITY PROJECTS
• Post-Katrina classroom photos with teacher Amelie Prescott, New Orleans
• Time & Again Press
• Where We're From
• Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here (anthology)
• "Within...Without" Photo and text exhibit, Arab Arts Festival, Liverpool, England 2019
• ISKME Presentation (video) at Big Ideas Fest 2016

• PERFORMANCE, MUSIC, AND SONG
• I-5 adapted for screen by Jai Jai Noire/Mighty Small Films
• Oakland Tales, Lost Secrets of the Town
• Lost Secrets of the Iron Triangle, a play
• Because the Spirit Moved by Arundo
• Shadowland
• The History of Metal

• BIOGRAPHY

• PAINTINGS by RITA BRENNER

• CONTACT

• LINKS
• Appendix.Oakland Tales (pdf)
• Bibliography.Oakland Tales (pdf)

After Katrina

Post-Katrina classroom photos with teacher Amelie Prescott, New Orleans

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