Yvonne Battle-Felton was born in Pennsylvania and raised in New Jersey. She moved to Maryland and is currently living in Yorkshire with her family. Yvonne holds an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She is an Associate Teaching Professor and the Academic Director of Creative Writing at Cambridge. Her debut novel, Remembered, won a Northern Writers' Award in 2017. It was published in 2019 by Dialogue Books and was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2020. It was licensed in 2020 in the US to Blackstone Publishing.