Bio
Nova Ren Suma is the author of the YA novel Imaginary Girls, forthcoming from Dutton in June 2011. She has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and a BA in writing & photography from Antioch College and has been awarded fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and the Corporation of Yaddo. Nova’s short stories have been published in literary journals including Gulf Coast, LIT, Orchid, Small Spiral Notebook, and elsewhere, and she also wrote the tween novel Dani Noir. She grew up in the Hudson Valley and now lives in New York City.