Ivy Pochoda is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Wonder Valley, Visitation Street and These Women, which was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, The Edgar Award, the California Book Award, The Macavity Award, and the International Thriller Writers Award. Ivy has won the 2018 Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and the Prix Page America in France. Her books have been widely translated, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times, among others.