Tiffany Yarde was raised by Bajan immigrants in the hard-knock project life of Walt Whitman Houses located in Brooklyn, NY. It was a life where having a drug-dealing family member was the norm, daily gunfire was to be expected, and roaches outnumbered the residents struggling to struggle. Later, she attended a Quaker boarding school and a women's liberal arts college. The juxtaposition between her tumultuous upbringing and her deceptively lily-white academic endeavors, lead Tiffany to write about aggressively flawed characters struggling with self-identification. In 2005, Tiffany was awarded the M. Carey Thomas Award for Distinction in Writing. In 2015, Tiffany was a semifinalist in the Insider Television Writing Contest for her TV pilot, ANONYMOUS. In 2018, she was selected by the London Screenwriters’ Festival to participate in a Writers’ Room for the longest-running medical drama series in the world, CASUALTY. Recently, Tiffany was one of the screenwriters chosen for the inaugural class of Roadmap Writers and IFT's Creative Corridor program. She currently lives in Rochester, NY with her husband and five children and enjoys exploring the hardest questions of human existence, like how to flip a pancake without breaking it.