Nova Ren Suma is the author of the YA novel Imaginary Girls, which was published in 2011 by Dutton, and will be out in paperback on June 14, 2012, from Speak. Her tween novel Dani Noir (Simon & Schuster / Aladdin, 2009) will be reissued for a YA audience in a newly updated trade paperback edition as Fade Out from Simon Pulse on June 5, 2012. 17 & Gone, her new YA novel, is forthcoming from Dutton in Spring 2013.

Nova has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and a BA in writing & photography from Antioch College. She’s been awarded fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and, twice, from the MacDowell Colony. She will be a resident at the Millay Colony in fall 2012 and was recently selected to attend the Launch Pad Workshop this summer, a NASA-funded astronomy workshop for established writers to encourage use of modern science in novels. She grew up in small towns across the Hudson Valley and now lives in New York City.

Visit Nova’s blog at distraction99.com.

For more about Imaginary Girls, visit the book’s official website imaginarygirlsbook.com.