Yvonne Battle-Felton was born in Pennsylvania and raised in New Jersey. She holds an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She is a Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. A writer of fiction and creative non-fiction, Yvonne's work 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 a recipient of a Northern Writers' Award in 2017 for Remembered .