Nova will talk with us about writing a first draft through the use of prompts, exercises, and moments of discovery to offer suprise and magic to our characters’ backstories and developing plot.

Nova Ren Suma is the New York Times bestselling author of The Walls Around Us and A Room Away from the Wolves, both of which were finalists for an Edgar Award, among other YA novels. She teaches creative writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania.