Photos

Summer with Lucy Cooper, then Commissioning Editor at HarperCollins UK, at Paria Suites Hotel & Conference Center in 2020

Summer at a photo shoot in 2019. The book is Down by the River: Afro-Caribbean Rhymes, Games, and Songs for Children compiled by Grace Hallworth, one of the first Caribbean picture books Summer ever read.

Summer with Dr. Aníbal Muñoz Claudio after her keynote speech at the 45th PRTESOL Annual Convention at the University of Turabo in Puerto Rico in 2018

Summer with Héctor Aparicio and Melissa García Vega at Aparcio Distributors, an independent children's bookshop in Bayamon Puerto Rico, in 2018

Summer with children's author Joy Cowley, OBE at The Barn at Boyds Mills during a Highlights Foundation children's writer's retreat in 2013

Summer with children's author Suzanne Bloom at The Barn at Boyds Mills during a Highlights Foundation children's writer's retreat in 2013

Summer with fellow kid lit folk at a Commonwealth Education Trust think tank at The Inn at Penn in 2013

Summer & Alice Curry (Founder & CEO of Lantana Publishing) in London in 2016

Summer meeting Caldecott Medal-winning children's author/illustrator Jerry Pinkney at the Parkway Central Library, Philadelphia in 2016

Summer and her one-time writing circle leader, the author Naomi Jackson, at the NGC Bocas Lit Fest in Trinidad in 2015

Summer during her teaching days, with her university students at an end-of-semester class celebration in 2017

Summer with members of a teen girls book club she co-led for 10 months (2013-2014) at Mighty Writers, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit

Summer outside her private cabin at The Barn at Boyds Mills (Pocono Mountains) during a Highlights Foundation children's writer's retreat in 2013

Summer with her butai (kamishibai stage) at the National Library of Trinidad & Tobago in 2016

Summer with fellow presenters at the 36th West Indian Literature Conference at The University of the West Indies in 2017

Summer meeting Wendy Lamb, former director of Wendy Lamb Books, at the University of Pennsylvania in 2013

Summer and Jamaica Kincaid taught workshops in neighboring rooms at the US Virgin Islands Literary Festival and Book Fair in St. Croix in 2018

Summer meeting Daniel José Older, author of young adult books, at the NGC Bocas Lit Fest in Trinidad in 2016