Yah Yah Scholfield’s work has been featured in a number of horror and speculative fiction magazines and anthologies, including Fiyah Lit Mag and Death in the Mouth Vol. 1. They have also published a short story collection, Just a Little Snack. When they’re not terrifying innocents, Yah Yah is a professional stay-at-home daughter in Atlanta with their cats, Sophie and Chihiro.
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"On Sundays She Picked Flowers marks the debut of a ferociously talented writer. Yah Yah Scholfield writes with insight, beauty and the wildness of real art. This is a love story, a healing story, a tale of hard-won survival. Real, in the way all good fairy tales are.”
– Victor LaValle, bestselling author of Lone Women
"Through their vivid, intoxicating prose, Schofield creates a visceral tale infused with feminine rage and the inherited trauma from being Black in America that is beautiful, bloody, and gory...This evocative work that’s lush as a humid Georgia summer night will stick with readers for a long time."
– Library Journal (starred review)
“Yah Yah Scholfield has written one of the most visceral, intense, brutal, and yet honest, works of horror I have read in a long time. On Sundays She Picked Flowers is about the trauma of family, relationships, and the monsters we let in when we fail to confront what wounds us. You will devour this book--unless it devours you first.”
– P. Djèlí Clark, award winning author of Ring Shout
"Atmospheric and engrossing. On Sundays is written with the same dark love and shadow magic it explores. An essential debut."
– Johnny Compton, author of The Spite House and Dead First
“On Sundays She Picked Flowers is a vibrant and visceral debut, in both the literal and metaphorical senses. Scholfield's novel digs deep on themes like monstrosity, queer desire, and the deep-running legacies of trauma and violence that have shaped Black life in the American South—it's an absolute stunner of a book.”
– Lee Mandelo, author of Summer Sons
“A beauty of a debut. Scholfield’s sharp prose effortlessly carries scenes of sweetness and brutality. It grabbed me from the first page, did not let me go till the final one, and I can still feel it lingering long after the end. This is the kind of novel I crave as a reader.”
– Erin E. Adams, author of Jackal and One of You
“A love story covered in blood…On Sundays She Picked Flowers is an absolutely beautiful, complicated read."
– Christina Orlando, Reactor Magazine
"An often brutal but beautiful horror novel, On Sundays She Picked Flowers is a Southern Gothic novel that takes classic tropes and makes them new."
– Jessica White, Dazed
"[A] dark, feral tale of haints, sorcery and the monsters that lurk within us...that explores unsettling themes, but it is also a highly literary tale that comments on the vagaries of romance and the quest to become one’s authentic self. Scholfield is a gifted writer."
– Suzanne Van Atten, Atlanta Journal Constitution
"On Sundays She Picked Flowers marks the debut of a ferociously talented writer. Yah Yah Scholfield writes with insight, beauty and the wildness of real art. This is a love story, a healing story, a tale of hard-won survival. Real, in the way all good fairy tales are.”
– Victor LaValle, bestselling author of Lone Women
"Through their vivid, intoxicating prose, Schofield creates a visceral tale infused with feminine rage and the inherited trauma from being Black in America that is beautiful, bloody, and gory...This evocative work that’s lush as a humid Georgia summer night will stick with readers for a long time."
– Library Journal (starred review)
“Yah Yah Scholfield has written one of the most visceral, intense, brutal, and yet honest, works of horror I have read in a long time. On Sundays She Picked Flowers is about the trauma of family, relationships, and the monsters we let in when we fail to confront what wounds us. You will devour this book--unless it devours you first.”
– P. Djèlí Clark, award winning author of Ring Shout
"Atmospheric and engrossing. On Sundays is written with the same dark love and shadow magic it explores. An essential debut."
– Johnny Compton, author of The Spite House and Dead First
“On Sundays She Picked Flowers is a vibrant and visceral debut, in both the literal and metaphorical senses. Scholfield's novel digs deep on themes like monstrosity, queer desire, and the deep-running legacies of trauma and violence that have shaped Black life in the American South—it's an absolute stunner of a book.”
– Lee Mandelo, author of Summer Sons
“A beauty of a debut. Scholfield’s sharp prose effortlessly carries scenes of sweetness and brutality. It grabbed me from the first page, did not let me go till the final one, and I can still feel it lingering long after the end. This is the kind of novel I crave as a reader.”
– Erin E. Adams, author of Jackal and One of You
“A love story covered in blood…On Sundays She Picked Flowers is an absolutely beautiful, complicated read."
– Christina Orlando, Reactor Magazine
"An often brutal but beautiful horror novel, On Sundays She Picked Flowers is a Southern Gothic novel that takes classic tropes and makes them new."
– Jessica White, Dazed
"Scholfield tells a story that’s as haunting as it is cathartic, as beautiful as it is devastating. On Sundays She Picked Flowers is the kind of horror novel that shows just how powerful a literary force the genre can be and proves Scholfield a talent to watch."
– Rachel Wright, Arts Atlanta
"Brilliant in every right, On Sundays She Picked Flowers... is, simply put, remarkable in every sense. Drawing upon Gothic themes that resonate so deeply in the here and now, Scholfield so gorgeously explores the topics that hurt the most with utter beauty and poise. Never has horror hurt and hypnotized in such a fashion. Gripping, unique, and damn impressive, On Sundays She Picked Flowers is certainly a literary horror classic."
– Anna Dupre, Capes and Tights
"[A] dark, feral tale of haints, sorcery and the monsters that lurk within us...that explores unsettling themes, but it is also a highly literary tale that comments on the vagaries of romance and the quest to become one’s authentic self. Scholfield is a gifted writer."
– Suzanne Van Atten, Atlanta Journal Constitution
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