People at the Centre for Creative Writing

Yvonne Battle-Felton - Academic Director for Creative Writing

Yvonne Battle-Felton has an MA in writing (dual concentration fiction/creative nonfiction) from Johns Hopkins University and a Creative Writing PhD from Lancaster University where she has taught Creative Writing. As a researcher, she is interested in storytelling, the power of stories to build, develop, and heal communities, silences in narrative, stories as advocacy, and representation. She is a novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Yvonne has taught creative writing at University of Cumbria, Liverpool John Moores, and most recently at Sheffield Hallam University where she was Principal Lecturer in Creative Writing and the Business and Enterprise Lead for Humanities.