Yvette Manessis Corporon is an Internationally Best-Selling author and Emmy Award winning producer. She is the author of When the Cypress Whispers (Harper, 2014), Something Beautiful Happened (Howard, 2017), Where The Wandering Ends (Harper Muse, 2022), and Daughter of Ruins (coming by Harper Muse October 2024). To date, Yvette’s books have been translated into 16 languages. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, two children, and the sweetest little white lab you’ve ever seen.
 

Yvette is three-time Emmy Award winning journalist who has traveled the world covering the biggest stories in news and entertainment. She is currently a Senior Supervising Producer with EXTRA. Yvette is also a recipient of the Silurian Award for Excellence in Journalism and the New York City Comptroller and City Council’s Award for Greek Heritage and Culture.
 

A native New Yorker and daughter of Greek immigrants, Yvette studied Journalism and Classical Civilizations at NYU. She loves combining both of her passions and crafting stories from little known moments in history and mythology.