Tamar Yellin

Tamar Yellin is a multi-award-winning novelist and short story writer. In 2007, she was the inaugural recipient of the international Sami Rohr Prize for emerging Jewish writers for her multi-generational family saga and interrogation of the biblical text, The Genizah at the House of Shepher. Her themes include identity, belonging, loss and the lure of the past, but her most recent publication is a literary murder story, Gladwell the Parodist: a Whydunnit.

Tamar Yellin is a novelist and short story writer. She is a qualified teacher who, for 27 years, served as the Jewish Faith Tutor for the Interfaith Education Centre in Bradford schools. She has also undertaken some university lecturing. For nine years, Yellin co-led an NHS Well Together creative writing group, and she now co-leads weekly creative writing workshops both in person and online. From 2018-2021, she was an RLF Fellow at Leeds University and has been involved with RLF Writing for Life programme since 2022. Her own lived experience particularly attunes her to working with NHS Recovery Colleges; she feels passionately about the power of reading and writing for self-expression and good mental health.