Nova Ren Suma is an American #1 New York Times best selling author[1] of young adult novels.

[3] She spent her teen years living in Woodstock, New York, where she frequented the Ashokan Reservoir, which became the setting for her novel Imaginary Girls.

[7] Other of her past jobs include being an assistant editor at Marvel Comics and an editorial & production associate at Raw Books.

[2] She teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts, in the Writing for Children & Young Adults low-residency MFA program,[16] and at the University of Pennsylvania.

Pan founded Foreshadow: A Serial Anthology via the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo, as an online venue for established authors to publish short stories alongside new voices.