Summer Brenner was raised in Georgia and migrated west, first to New Mexico and eventually to northern California where she has been a long-time resident. She has published ten books of poetry, fiction, and novels for children. Her works include the critically acclaimed noir thriller from PM Press, I-5, A Novel of Crime, Transport, and Sex (chosen by Los Angeles Mystery Bookstore as a Top Ten book of 2009). Gallimard’s prestigious la serie noire published another of Brenner’s crime novels which PM Press will release in 2011 by its English title, Nearly Nowhere. Her youth novel, Richmond Tales, Lost Secrets of the Iron Triangle, was selected for a 2010 Richmond Historic Preservation award and was the subject of a Special Proclamation by the Mayor of Richmond.