writer | teacher | artivist
Summer is an artivist, anthropologist, and shapeshifter.
Her essays and satire have appeared in The New York Times, The Sun, McSweeney’s, Slate, The Independent, and elsewhere.
She is the winner of the Alaska Poetry Contest and recipient of a Juneau Community Foundation Vibrancy Arts Award, two Juneau Arts and Humanities awards, a Tutka Bay Writing scholarship, and an Lin Halterman award.
She writes about culture, gender, neurodivergence, and the feral creative life on her Substack Bestseller newsletter, “The Feral Stack.”
Mother to a trickster son and mystical daughter, spouse of a third-generation fisherman, and Spanish teacher of twenty years, she dances with the Off the Hook Honeys, co-founded Moon Lit Poets, and serves on the board of Mudrooms, a community storytelling event modeled in the style of The Moth.
She lives in Lingít Aaní, Juneau, Alaska, on the unceded lands of the Áak’w Kwáan Tlingit People.
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