Nova Ren Suma is an American author of young adult novels, including The Walls Around Us, Imaginary Girls, Fade Out, and 17 & Gone.
Education
Nova has an Master of Fine Arts in fiction from Columbia University and a Bachelor in writing and photography from Antioch College. She attended the Launch Pad Workshop, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration-funded astronomy workshop for writers.
Career
She’s been awarded fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Millay Colony, and, twice, from the MacDowell Colony. She has been an ice-cream scooper, a babysitter, a daycare worker, a bookstore cashier, an intern at magazines and literary journals, an assistant at a literary agency that focused on mysteries and whodunits, an editorial and production associate at a small-press publisher, an artist"s assistant, an assistant editor of X-Men comic books, a copy editor, a ghostwriter, and a production editor for a children"s book publisher. Her short stories for adults have appeared in publications including Small Spiral Notebook, The New School’s LIT magazine, Orchid, Gulf Coast.
She grew up in small towns across the Hudson Valley and now lives in New York City.