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Nova Ren Suma

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Nova Ren Suma is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling and #1 Indie Next Pick The Walls Around Us as well as A Room Away from the Wolves, both finalists for an Edgar Award, among other acclaimed novels. She was co-editor of the story & craft anthology FORESHADOW: Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading & Writing YA, and her own short stories appear in various anthologies. She is a MacDowell fellow, a Yaddo fellow, and has taught creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and Vermont College of Fine Arts. She grew up in the Hudson Valley and now lives in Philadelphia. Wake the Wild Creatures is forthcoming from Little, Brown in May 2025.

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Speculative Novel Workshop with Stanford Continuing Studies

I’m delighted to announce that I’m teaching a new class with Stanford Continuing Studies this fall. It’s called Speculative Novel Workshop: The Unreal, the Surreal, the Fantastic, and registration opens Sept. 18! Speculative Novel Workshop: The Unreal, the Surreal, the Fantastic with Nova Ren Suma Online asynchronous (10 weeks) September 23 – December 2 Please […]
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This is my new book! Finally! As I write this, I'm at my desk reviewing the 1st pass pages and I love the book so much. If there were seven stars, I'd give it all seven (once you read the book, you'll know why). WAKE THE WILD CREATURES hasn't entered ...more
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“Most people, in the end, really are all on their own.”
― Nova Ren Suma, Imaginary Girls
tags: lonley, revelation
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“Our private tastes in books showed a hint of our secret selves.”
― Nova Ren Suma, The Walls Around Us
tags: books, reading
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“Ruby’s stories didn’t have morals. They meant one thing in the light and one thing in the dark and another thing entirely when she was wearing sunglasses.”
― Nova Ren Suma, Imaginary Girls
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