Reading: Ivy Pochoda (Novelist)
Author's reading, Q & A, and book signing event: Raised in Brooklyn, New York and now living in Los Angeles, American novelist Ivy Pochoda is the critically acclaimed author of seven novels, including These Women (Ecco 2021), 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; and Sing Her Down (Picador 2024), which won the LA Times Book Prize. Pochoda is also a 2018 winner of Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and the Prix Page America in France.
Her work often delves into themes of female violence, societal judgment, and mythology. Her latest novel, Ecstasy (G.P. Putnam's Sons 2025), was considered one of the most-anticipated horror books of 2025. A horror reimagining of playwright Euripides’s Greek tragedy, The Bacchae, Ecstasy explores themes of empowerment, desire, and what happens when women reject the roles set out for them.
Ivy Pochoda now leads a creative writing workshop in Skid Row, Los Angeles, where she helped found Skid Row Zine. She is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California Riverside Palm Desert low-residency MFA program.