About

Yvonne McBride is an author and oral historian based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation Fellow, and a Flight School Fellow. McBride is also a recipient of the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh grant from The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments. She is currently working on a short story collection and a historical fiction novel set in Pittsburgh’s Hill District during the jazz era.