Yvonne Battle-Felton

Yvonne Battle-Felton

Yvonne Battle-Felton is a writer of fiction and creative non-fiction.

In 2017 she was a recipient of a Northern Writers’ Award for her debut novel Remembered, which was published by Dialogue Books in February 2019. Remembered was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019.

Yvonne holds an MA in writing from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in creative writing from Lancaster University where she is an associate lecturer. A writer of fiction and creative non-fiction, her writing has been published in riverSedge, Assisi, Not Somewhere Else But Here: A Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place, Welter, Slices, and The Chesapeake Reader Literary Journal.

Yvonne was born in Pennsylvania and raised in New Jersey. She is now based at Sheffield Hallam University.