Yrsa Daley-Ward is a writer

“The pastor makes twenty-four references to hell in the sermon at church and forgets to talk about love.”

― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“Smiling at devils is a useful, learned thing.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“Maybe your life will work. Most likely it won't at first but that will give you poetry.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

Yrsa Daley-Ward is a writer and poet of mixed West Indian and West African heritage. Born to a Jamaican mother and a Nigerian father, Yrsa was raised by her devout Seventh Day Adventist grandparents in the small town of Chorley in the North of England. Her first collection of stories 'On Snakes and Other Stories' was published by 3:AM Press.