Nova Ren Suma

Teaches at Ideasmyth at The Writers Room

Nova Ren Suma is the author of the young adult novels Imaginary Girls (Dutton, 2011) and 17 & Gone (Dutton, 2013) as well as the middle-grade novel Dani Noir (Simon & Schuster, 2009), which was reissued for the YA shelves as Fade Out. Her next YA novel, The Walls Around Us, is forthcoming from Algonquin Young Readers in Spring 2015, with a second YA novel to follow, slated for 2016.

Nova has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and has been awarded fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, Yaddo, and an NEA fellowship to attend the Hambidge Center. She has worked for publishers including HarperCollins, Penguin and Marvel Comics, and has taught YA novel writing workshops and master classes with Mediabistro, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and at SCBWI conferences, and is a YA mentor with the Virginia G. Piper Center at Arizona State University for their “Your Novel Year” program. She has been a member of the Writers Room since 1999.