Nova Ren Suma is an American #1 New York Times best-selling author of young adult novels. Her best-known work is The Walls Around Us. Her novels have twice been finalists for the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult from Mystery Writers of America.

Nova Ren Suma is also the author of the #1 Indie Next Pick A Room Away from the Wolves, 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. Her upcoming novel, Wake the Wild Creatures, is forthcoming from Little, Brown in May 2025.