Yvvette Edwards

Yvvette Edwards is a British author of Montserratian heritage. She has authored two novels: A Cupboard Full of Coats (published by Oneworld in the UK in 2011 and Amistad, Harper Collins in America in 2012) and The Mother (published by Mantle, Pan MacMillan and Amistad, Harper Collins in 2016). Her work has been nominated for the Writers’ Guild award, Man Booker Prize, NAACP Image Award, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Waverton Good Read Award.
A Cupboard Full of Coats was selected as a Kirkus Best Book of the Year. In 2020, The Mother was chosen by Bernardine Evaristo as one of her ‘Top 20 books by Black British womxn writers.’ 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 pieces from over 200 entries to translate and reprint in the abridged German edition. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.