Ivy Pochoda · 150 words

Ivy Pochoda is the author of Ecstasy, Sing Her Down, These Women, Wonder Valley, Visitation Street, and The Art of Disappearing. Sing Her Down won the LA Times Book Prize; she has also won the Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and the Prix Page America, and been a finalist for the Edgar Award. Her short fiction has received the International Thriller Writers Award. For many years she led a creative writing workshop in Skid Row, Los Angeles, where she helped found Skid Row Zine. She teaches in the low-residency MFA program at the University of California Riverside-Palm Desert, and lives in Los Angeles.
