[1] Brenner's works include short stories, novellas, noir crime, social justice youth novels, poetry, and a memoir.
Brenner's publications include Dust: A Memoir;[2] Dancers and the Dance; My Life in Clothes; two noir novels with political themes, I-5[3] and Nearly Nowhere, also released in France as Presque nulle part through Gallimard's Série noire.
Brenner's youth novel, Richmond Tales, Lost Secrets of the Iron Triangle was also chosen as the first "One City, One Book" selection for the City of Richmond and selected by the California Teachers Association for Read Across America.
[7] Brenner is a member of the Retort collective and a participant in the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Project (2007–present),[8] archived at the RBML, Columbia University.
Where We’re From is an inter-generational, cross-cultural oral history, poetry, and photography project for Richmond youth and their families in partnership with photographer Ruth Morgan and Community Works West.