Following her completion of a Bachelor of Music degree in Classical Vocal Performance, Nova moved to Moscow, Russia, where she documented several newly written songs and released them on CD-R's as an album entitled Session I, which included hand-made artwork.

[1] She began performing and recording under the moniker AwRy, and gathered the support of a group of musicians, who played a variety of non-traditional instruments including wine glasses and wind chimes.

[4] The group contributed a cover of the Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse song "Feeling Good" for the Red Hot Organization's compilation Dark Was the Night, released in 2009, and appear on the David Byrne and Fatboy Slim 2010 album, Here Lies Love.

[6] In 2014, My Brightest Diamond released their fourth album, This Is My Hand which Nova wrote imagining a tribe of people gathered around a fire, who were making music together, telling stories and hearing from the shaman.

They made their first release on Rhyme & Reason Records with the electronic-leaning album A Million and One, which PopMatters describes as "display[ing] My Brightest Diamond's experimental range [and] Nova's crystalline voice.