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Yrsa Daley-Ward (born 1989) is a writer, model and actor of West Indian and West African heritage who was born in England. She is known for her debut book, Bone, as well as for her spoken-word poetry, and for being an "Instagram poet". Her memoir, The Terrible, was published in 2018, and in 2019 won the PEN/Ackerley Prize.

Yrsa Daley-Ward was born to a Jamaican mother and Nigerian father in Chorley, Lancashire, in Northern England, where she grew up with her grandparents, who were devout Seventh-day Adventists.

In her late teens and early 20s Daley-Ward was a model, "struggling to pay her rent in London, working for brands such as Apple, Topshop, Estée Lauder and Nike". In search of better opportunities, she found the money for a ticket to South Africa, where she eventually lived for three years, and has said: "The thing that attracted me to South Africa was that the models look like me and there's so much more diversity".