Yon Walls

Yon Walls spent her early adolescence and adulthood in San Francisco, California. After completing an MFA from Mills College she taught English and Literature for over a decade. She's also taught Women's Writing Workshops in Japan. In 2016 Seeing Colette, her first novel, was selected for the California Author's Series with BridgeHouse Books and in 2017 was nominated for the Jill Mellick Award of the San Francisco Bay Area in recognition of excellence in the Expressive Arts. She's also author of two children's story anthology adaptions (2003); The Magic Bones and Two Ways to Count to Ten. The classic adaptions accompany work by San Francisco Bay Area Artist Leigh Toldi. She's published poems in online zines and journals, and has a love of ambiance, history and faraway places. She loves fiction classics, world literature, great television and film drama, and the idea of the in-hand novel as the post-modern portmanteau to the ebook.She currently lives in the Sacramento Valley in California.