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 June 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 in June 2012. 17 & Gone, her new YA novel, is forthcoming from Dutton in 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, and the MacDowell Colony, and will be a resident at Djerassi Resident Artists Program in spring 2012 and at the Millay Colony in fall 2012. 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.