About

YVONNE VENTRESCA is an award-winning young adult author with an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business. IF I'M GONE is her adult thriller debut. She serves on the Mystery Writers of America New York Board and has mentored other writers through the Association of Writers and Writing Programs and Mystery Writers of America. You can find her on most platforms @YvonneVentresca, or visit her website, YvonneVentresca.com where she blogs about writing productivity and features writing resources.

Featured Work

Pandemic

2022
Cover of Pandemic, 2022 edition

Pandemic (winner of SCBWI's Crystal Kite Award) continues to be a timely YA read about surviving a widespread deadly virus. Rereleased in 2022. Originally published pre-COVID 2014.

Other Works

  • If I'm Gone

    2027

  • The Second Black Beacon Book of Mystery Anthology, "Justice for Jaynie"

    2023

  • Voyagers: The Third Ghost Anthology, "The Third Ghost"

    2020

  • 30 Shades of Dead Anthology

    2017

  • Hero Lost: Mysteries of Death and Life Anthology, "The Art of Remaining Bitter"

    2017

  • Black Flowers, White Lies

    2016

  • Prep for Doom Anthology, "Escape to Orange Blossom"

    2015

Awards and Recognition

  • The short story "The Third Ghost" was chosen by contest as the eponymous story for the middle grade anthology, VOYAGERS: THE THIRD GHOST
  • "Silence," published in the BEYOND THE REVOLVING DOOR: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CHOICES, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
  • BLACK FLOWERS, WHITE LIES won a 2017 Gold Medal "IPPY" for National Young Adult Fiction
  • PANDEMIC was shortlisted for the 2018 West Australian Young Readers' Book Awards
  • PANDEMIC won the 2015 Crystal Kite Award from the Society of Children's Books Writers and Illustrators (Atlantic region).

Press and Media Mentions