YVONNE SILVER

YVONNE SILVER

Brought up in the middle east, among the expat community, on a series of different army bases across the region, Yvonne approaches life as a visitor still hunting for a place to call home.

After a brief career in dance, both contemporary and pornographic, she eventually found her feet studying Baroque theatre in Florence where she briefly being involved in the ‘Berlusconi’ scene, more out of journalistic interest than a ‘love of the fat man’. Writing was a constant, a way to hide from the absence of her parents and a form of expression when travellers poverty led her to extremes that have very much formed her as a person.

Weaponizer came in contact with Yvonne in the Nuyorican Poets Café in NYC, where she was reading translations of poetry she had completed for imprisoned Cuban journalists currently languishing in their state prisons for critical reports of the incumbent leadership.

Yvonne brings personality to her work with a frank and often slightly disturbing honesty. A stream of consciousness style of writing invites her to plumb her memories and imagination to paint a portrait of a moment, a tapestry of story. Sex, childhood and emotional disconnection from the moment are some of her regular themes.



Weaponizer Submissions by YVONNE SILVER:

• THE DOCK in fiction