Ivy Pochoda
Pronounced: Po-co-dah

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.

CURRENT BOOK
Ecstasy
G. P. Putnam's Sons
June 17, 2025
ISBN 9780593851173

AWARDS
LA Times Book Prize, for Sing Her Down
Strand Critics Award for Best Novel
Prix Page America, France
International Thriller Writers Award, for the short story “Jackrabbit Skin”
Edgar Award, finalist
