Sara Nović

Nović grew up between the United States and Croatia.^[2]

She is a graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University, where she studied fiction and literary translation. ^[7]

Nović has translated poems by Bosnian writer Izet Sarajlić. Nović was awarded the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize in 2013 for her translation of Sarajlić's poem "After I Was Wounded".^[8] In 2014, Nović was awarded a Travel Fellowship by the American Literary Translators Association.^[9]

Her debut novel, Girl at War, tells the story of Ana Jurić, a ten-year-old girl whose life is upended by the civil war that resulted in the dissolution of Yugoslavia.^{[10][11][12][13][2]} The novel was an Alex Award recipient in 2016.^[14] It was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.^[13][7]

In 2019, she released the nonfiction project America is Immigrants, illustrated by Alison Kolesar. It was published by Penguin Random House as an e-book.^[15]

Nović's second book True Biz was released in 2022.^[16] The book follows protagonist Charlie to the River Valley School for the Deaf, where she deals with a faulty cochlear implant and meets other deaf people for the first time in her life. The book was a Reese's Book Club pick and was reviewed as "moving, fast-paced and spirited [...] but also skillfully educational" by The New York Times.^{[17] [18]} The novel integrates excerpts from Wikipedia pages and other sources to offer educational content about American Sign Language and Deaf culture and history.^[19]

She is a fiction editor at Blunderbuss Magazine and serves as the founding editor of the deaf rights blog Redeafined.^[20][21]

Nović teaches creative writing and Deaf studies at Emerson College and Stockton University.^[9][22]

Nović uses they and she pronouns.^[23] She lives in Philadelphia.^[24][22]