Yvvette Edwards is a British author of Montserratian heritage. Her novels A Cupboard Full of Coats (Kirkus Best Book of the Year) and The Mother have been widely acclaimed, with the latter named by Bernardine Evaristo as one of her Top 20 Books by Black British Womxn Writers. Her work has been nominated for the Writers’ Guild award, Man Booker Prize, NAACP Image Award, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Hurston-Wright Legacy Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Her short story, ‘Security’, was published in Margaret Busby’s New Daughters of Africa anthology (2019) and subsequently included in the anthology, Neue Töchter Afrikas (2023), which selected 30 from over 200 entries to translate and reprint in the abridged German edition. Her most recent novel, Good Good Loving, continues her powerful exploration of love, survival and the emotional landscapes of Black British life, rendered with depth, humour and unflinching honesty. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.