If you really want to know, the best way is to read my debut memoir, I'm Done Being Good, out November 7. Here's a little taste in the meantime :)

Hi!! I’m Summer and I AM AN ARTIST.

I write, sing, and make cool abstract paintings. For years, I believed that creativity was something I’d get around to after I built a “successful” life. SPOILER ALERT: It turned out creativity was the thing that made that life worth building in the first place.

I spent a long time hiding my creativity while I built a career in the San Francisco tech industry — becoming the CEO of a startup before turning thirty. Leaving that world meant letting go of certainty and beginning the slower, more honest work of becoming myself again.

My debut memoir, forthcoming from Pink Ink Press, follows my journey through burnout, sobriety, financial uncertainty, a year spent traveling the world, and the search for a life built around creation instead of achievement. It is a story about reclaiming the artist I always was, and an invitation for readers to rediscover the artist within themselves.

Today, I live in Brooklyn, where I fiercely protect my mornings, sing in a Monday night choir, and work as a consultant to support the creative life I’m intentionally building.