Summer Brennan is an award-winning investigative journalist and author based in Brooklyn. She is the recipient of the 2016 Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award, and is a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. Her first book, The Oyster War: The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics, and the Future of Wilderness in America, was published in August 2015 by Counterpoint Press and was shortlisted for the Orion Book Award.