Former Intercollegiate Champion Ivy Pochoda Completes Second Novel from Bob Hanscom
November 21, 2012
- Ivy Pochoda is the author of the novel The Art of Disappearing, which
was published in 2009 by St. Martin’s Press. A former professional
squash player who won the intercollegiate national squash championships
in 1998 while at Harvard, she now works as a ghostwriter.
Her short fiction has appeared in H.O.W. Journal and Canteen and she
has contributed to The Rumpus and the Huffington Post book section.
Her nonfiction articles have appeared in Fantastic Man, Time Out New York, House & Garden, Maxim, Minx, and BABY.
She was the 2009 James Merrill House Writer in Residence. She has a BA
from Harvard University in English and Classical Greek with a focus on
dramatic literature and a MFA from Bennington College in fiction.
Her second novel, Visitation Street, will be published in August 2013 by Ecco / HarperCollins.