Nova Ren Suma

Nova Ren Suma is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling The Walls Around Us as well as A Room Away from the Wolves, both finalists for an Edgar Award, among other acclaimed novels. She was co-editor of FORESHADOW: Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading & Writing YA and her own short stories appear in various anthologies. She is a MacDowell fellow, a Yaddo fellow, and has taught creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and Vermont College of Fine Arts. She grew up in the Hudson Valley and now lives in Philadelphia. Her upcoming novel is Wake the Wild Creatures.