Ivy Pochoda

Ivy Pochoda is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Wonder Valley, Visitation
Street, and These Women. She won the 2018 Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and the
Prix Page America in France, and has been a fialist for the Los Angeles Times Book
Prize and the Edgar Award, among other awards. For many years, Ivy taught creative
writing at Studio 526 in Los Angeles's Skid Row. She is currently a professor of creative
writing at the University of California Riverside-Palm Desert low-residency MFA
program. She lives in Los Angeles.