Summer Benowitz is a writer, director, and the head editor of Cusper Magazine, a biannual culture and lit publication based out of LA. Her writing centers on queer and female characters navigating the deranged, the satirical, and the obsessive.

Part of her "Princesses in Hell" trilogy, her short film, "There Are Mermaids in LA" — a subverted fairytale starring comedian Jamie Loftus — premiered at Dances with Films, and went on to screen at Silver Lake Shorts, Genre Blast and Woods Hole Film Festival before landing a permanent home on Film Shortage. The second installment, "Pea", which she plans to direct in April with SXSW placing "Make Me a Pizza" producer Kara Grace Miller, is about using delicacy to seem interesting. 

Summer is set to write on the forthcoming AppleTV+ series, A CARELESS MAN, an erotic thriller written by Emmy-award-winner, Carly Wray. Other projects include a feature rewrite for Pretty Matches and Happy Bad Bungalow and an experimental roadtrip comedy set to be directed next year via Silencio Productions. Her short story, "House Sitter", was published last month in Currant Jam Magazine, and her animated pilot "blob" is part of 2025's Sundance Virtual Lab. She is represented by Chloe Morris at 42 Entertainment.