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Nova Ren Suma

Nova Ren Suma is a fiction writer from the Hudson Valley now living in New York City. She has been awarded fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony.

Genres: Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy

New and upcoming books

May 2025

Wake the Wild Creatures

Novels

   Dani Noir (2009)
   Imaginary Girls (2011)
   Fade Out (2012)
   17 & Gone (2013)
   The Walls Around Us (2015)
   A Room Away From the Wolves (2018)
   Wake the Wild Creatures (2025)

Anthologies edited

Foreshadow (2020) (with Emily X R Pan)

Books containing stories by Nova Ren Suma

The House Where Death Lives (2024)
edited by
Alex Brown

It's a Whole Spiel (2019)
Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories
edited by
Katherine Locke and Laura Silverman

Toil & Trouble (2018)
15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft
edited by
Tess Sharpe and Jessica Spotswood

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Award nominations

	2019 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel (nominee) : A Room Away From the Wolves
	2016 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel (nominee) : The Walls Around Us

Nova Ren Suma recommends

Honeysuckle and Bone (2025)
(Honeysuckle and Bone, book 1)
Trisha Tobias
"Immersive, beguiling, and teeming with sinister secrets, Honeysuckle and Bone is a tense coil of a mystery that crackles with energy and haunting, vivid beauty. The voice is magnetic, the setting is undeniably alive, and the ghosts are insistent with devastating truths. This is a gorgeous, pulse-pounding debut."

The Wilderness of Girls (2024)
Madeline Claire Franklin
"A searing fairy tale that blooms with ferocious magic and mystery. To all readers like me who revel in the wondrous, ominous, and strange: you have just found your next great literary obsession."

The Vanishing Station (2024)
Ana Ellickson
"A spellbinding thriller full of fantastical feats of imagination and perilous, world-traveling magic. At each breathless stop on the journey of reading this book I was struck by vivid moments of romance, deception, and grave danger as Ruby does all she can to save her father, her home, and herself."

Clever Creatures of the Night (2024)
Samantha Mabry
"A riveting whiplash of a mystery set in a landscape full of threat and unsettling beauty. Clever Creatures of the Night ignites Samantha Mabry's sinister skill in surrounding you in rising unease until you're left trusting no one and nothing. I couldn't put it down."

The Insatiable Volt Sisters (2023)
Rachel Eve Moulton
"A ferociously reimagined fairy tale of cursed birth rights, guarded family history, and the lure of a mythic, monstrous place called home. The voices of the Volt sisters and every woman who forms the furious heart of this story gleam on the page, creating something deeply exhilarating and terrifyingly close to true."

What's Coming to Me (2022)
Francesca Padilla
"Propulsive, fearless, and filled with heart-aching revelations, What's Coming to Me is a beautiful debut by a scorching new voice in YA fiction. This is a thrill ride of a coming-of-age story, one that grabbed me by the throat but most of all moved me to the core."

Our Crooked Hearts (2022)
Melissa Albert
"Melissa Albert's signature storytelling is once again pure sorcery. This book has everything I love: girls with tremendous power at their fingertips, mothers with unforgivable secrets, horrors left on the doorstep, and best of all, writing that sings and stuns. To those with a crookedness inside you: You are about to be enthralled."

An Arrow to the Moon (2022)
Emily X R Pan
"An extraordinary debut from a fiercely talented writer."

Trashlands (2021)
Alison Stine
"Alison Stine’s visionary novel Trashlands is beautiful and painful at once, much like the devastating world of the future that she sees to the page here. I was left in awe of her imagination and deeply moved by her brave and unforgettable characters."

Gem & Dixie (2017)
Sara Zarr
"GEM & DIXIE is a beautiful, poignant, and ultimately hopeful story from one of the finest YA authors writing today. An exploration of the complicated love and loyalty between sisters that is at once profoundly moving and unflinchingly real."

Perfectly Good White Boy (2014)
Carrie Mesrobian
"Carrie Mesrobian is a truly fearless writer, one to envy and watch."

I'll Give You the Sun (2014)
Jandy Nelson
"This is a stunning, artfully woven story. My heart burst open at the blazing, unforgettable end. Magnificent."

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2013)
(Between, book 1)
April Genevieve Tucholke
"Like something between a disturbed dream and a wicked fantasy, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea will slip under your skin and capture the darkest corners of your imagination. This is a hypnotic, terrifying debut that won't soon escape my mind."

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