Nova Ren Suma is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling The Walls Around Us and A Room Away from the Wolves, both finalists for an Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel, among other acclaimed novels and short stories. She co-edited the story & craft anthology FORESHADOW: Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading & Writing YA, the print edition of foreshadowya.com. Nova is a MacDowell fellow and Yaddo fellow and has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. She’s taught creative writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, Columbia University, and the University of Pennsylvania. She’s from the Hudson Valley and currently lives in Philadelphia.

Visit Nova’s author website at novaren.com.