Nova Ren Suma is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling The Walls Around Us as well as A Room Away from the Wolves, both finalists for an Edgar Award, among other acclaimed novels for young adults. She co-edited the story & craft anthology Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading and Writing YA, which originated as an online publication of YA short fiction of all genres. Her own short stories have been published in various anthologies including Slasher Girls & Monster Boys and The House Where Death Lives. Her latest novel, Wake the Wild Creatures, was published by Little, Brown in 2025 and was named one of the Ten Best Sci-fi and Fantasy Novels of 2025 by The Washington Post.  

Nova has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and has been awarded fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, and Yaddo. She has taught creative writing at Columbia University, Vermont College of Fine Arts, and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as novel workshops with venues such as Tin House, Fine Arts Work Center, and Stanford Continuing Studies. She lives in Philadelphia.