Yvonne Battle-Felton

Yvonne Battle-Felton is an American author and academic who won the Shirley Jackson Award for Novel for Curdle Creek (2024), a Southern Gothic horror novel set in a fictional Black community in the American South. The novel was praised for its atmospheric horror, its exploration of community, trauma, and inherited fear. Battle-Felton holds a PhD and is a professor of creative writing and African American literature. Her debut novel Remembered (2019) was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Curdle Creek was her second novel. She lives in the United Kingdom where she teaches.