Nova Ren Suma is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling The Walls Around Us and A Room Away from the Wolves, which were both finalists for the Edgar Award. She also wrote Imaginary Girls and 17 & Gone and co-edited the story & craft anthology Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading and Writing YA. She has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and has taught creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and Vermont College of Fine Arts. Originally from the Hudson Valley, she spent most of her adult life in New York City, and now lives in Philadelphia. Her new novel Wake the Wild Creatures is forthcoming from Little, Brown in May 2025.
The following materials are available for press usage.
High-resolution photographs:
Nova Ren Suma, 2025 • Photo by Erik Ryerson (color JPEG – 3600 X 2400 px – 4.2M — larger version available with direct link)
Nova Ren Suma at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, 2018 • Photo by Alison Cherry (color JPEG – 2000 X 1333 px – 1M — larger version available with direct link)
Nova Ren Suma on her New York City rooftop, 2009 (black & white JPEG – 2160×1440 px – 1.2M) • Photo by Erik Ryerson (CC BY-SA)
Nova Ren Suma on her New York City rooftop, 2009 (color JPEG – 2160×1440 px – 1.5M) • Photo by Erik Ryerson (CC BY-SA)
Cover of WAKE THE WILD CREATURES by Nova Ren Suma, hardcover forthcoming May 6, 2025, from Little, Brown. (color JPEG – 2250 × 3400 px – 1.5 MB – larger version available with direct link)
Cover of FORESHADOW edited by Emily X.R. Pan and Nova Ren Suma, paperback edition published October 2020, from Algonquin. (color JPEG – 900 × 1352 px – 1 MB) • Larger size available
Cover of A ROOM AWAY FROM THE WOLVES by Nova Ren Suma, hardcover edition published September 2018, from Algonquin. (color JPEG – 1000 × 1455 px – 2 MB) • Larger size available
Cover of THE WALLS AROUND US by Nova Ren Suma, hardcover edition published March 2015 by Algonquin. (color JPEG – 1650 × 2475 px – 2 MB)
Cover of 17 & GONE by Nova Ren Suma, hardcover edition published March 2013 by Dutton/Penguin. (color JPEG – 825×1238 px – 794 KB)
Cover of IMAGINARY GIRLS by Nova Ren Suma, paperback edition published June 2012 by Speak/Penguin. (color JPEG – 1652×2479 px – 2 MB)
Cover of IMAGINARY GIRLS by Nova Ren Suma, first edition hardcover published June 2011 by Dutton/Penguin. (color JPEG – 1688 × 2550 px – 2.9 MB)
Cover of FADE OUT by Nova Ren Suma, the paperback edition of DANI NOIR, published June 2012 by Simon Pulse. (color JPEG – 1650 × 2475 px – 1.1 MB)
Cover art of DANI NOIR by Nova Ren Suma, cover illustrated by Marcos Calo. (color JPEG – 1682×2548 px – 1.8 MB)
