Yvonne Battle-Felton is an American writer living in the UK. Her debut novel Remembered was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (2019) and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize (2020). She was commended for children’s writing in the Faber Andlyn BAME (FAB) Prize (2017) and has three titles in Penguin Random House’s Ladybird Tales of Superheroes and three titles in Ladybird Tales of Crowns and Thrones. Yvonne's second novel, Curdle Creek (Henry Holt/Dialogue Books), a gothic horror inspired by Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, has been nominated for The Shirley Jackson Award (Novel).  Yvonne has a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University and is Associate Teaching Professor at Cambridge University where she is the Academic Director of Creative Writing at the Institute of Continuing Education.

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Yvonne aims to live a literary life full of creating, supporting, and organizing events, connecting authors and readers, and reading interesting books. She is interested in hosting and chairing events, interviewing authors, reading widely, delivering workshops, and collaborating on interesting projects.