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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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Average rating: 3.66 · 37,533 ratings · 7,724 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Walls Around Us 3.69 avg rating — 10,697 ratings — published 2014 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slasher Girls & Monster Boys by April Genevieve Tucholke (Editor and Contributor), Stefan Bachmann (Goodreads Author), Leigh Bardugo (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 9,444 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imaginary Girls 3.43 avg rating — 7,436 ratings — published 2011 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft 3.66 avg rating — 4,931 ratings — published 2018 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	17 & Gone 3.65 avg rating — 3,134 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Room Away From the Wolves 3.25 avg rating — 1,638 ratings — published 2018 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dani Noir 3.66 avg rating — 523 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wake the Wild Creatures 3.99 avg rating — 277 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[Imaginary Girls] [By: Suma, Nova Ren] [June, 2012] by Nova Ren Suma (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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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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