Summer Brennan is a writer and communications professional based in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. She has written for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, FITNESS Magazine, RYOT News, The San Francisco Chronicle, SMITH Magazine and other publications, and works regularly with the United Nations Press Office in New York. In 2012 she served as lead beat reporter for the Pulitzer Prize-winning rural weekly The Point Reyes Light. An artist in her spare time, her paintings have appeared in solo and group exhibitions in New York, California and Vermont.