Bio
Short:
Nova Ren Suma wrote the tween novel DANI NOIR. She has a BA from Antioch College and an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. She was awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony and will be a resident at Yaddo in 2010. Her YA novel, IMAGINARY GIRLS, is due out tentatively in 2011.
Long:
Nova Ren Suma is a fiction writer from the Hudson Valley now living in New York City. DANI NOIR, her debut novel for tweens, came out in hardcover and ebook in 2009 from Simon & Schuster / Aladdin and will be out in paperback September 21, 2010. DANI NOIR was named an Amazon.com Editors’ Pick for the “Top 10 Children’s Books: Middle Readers” of 2009. For more about the book, visit the official website.
Nova’s debut YA novel, IMAGINARY GIRLS, a story about two sisters, their strong bond, and the dead body that threatens to break it, is forthcoming in hardcover tentatively in Summer 2011 from Penguin / Dutton.
Nova was a fiction fellow with the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), a resident at the MacDowell Colony, and will be a resident at Yaddo in 2010. She holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where she was co-editor-in-chief of the literary journal COLUMBIA, and a BA in writing & photography from Antioch College. She has attended the Sewanee Writers Conference and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. Her short stories for adults have appeared in the literary journals Gulf Coast, Orchid, the New School’s LIT magazine, The Portland Review, Small Spiral Notebook, and elsewhere.
She spent years working in the New York publishing industry, for publishers including HarperCollins Children’s Books, Grosset & Dunlap, Price Stern Sloan, Marvel Comics, the small-press comics publisher RAW, and a stint as an intern at The New Yorker magazine. She now works freelance and writes books for teens and tweens.
She is a member of SCBWI and the Authors Guild.
For more about Nova, check out the compilation of interviews on the DANI NOIR website. Or for a bio in blog posts, see here.
A note about the website design: The photos in the mosaic are details from snapshots taken by Nova in downtown Manhattan, Philadelphia, and on the campus of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Site design by 36invisible.