Summer Hammond grew up in rural Iowa, reading, writing, and dreaming alongside the Mississippi River. She home-schooled through high school and went on to teach 9th grade Reading in Austin, TX, connecting great teens to great books. She is a proud 2019 graduate with her MFA from University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Haunted Waters Press, The Dillydoun Review, and Meat for Tea: The Valley Review. Summer resides in Wilmington by the sea with her kindred spirit and fellow book lover, Aly.
