Felicia Yap (born November 1980) is a Malaysia-born author. Her debut novel, a thriller titled Yesterday, was the subject of a bidding war by publishers.

Yap was born in November 1980 and raised in Kuala Lumpur. Her father refilled ATMs for a living and her mother was a clerk in a car repair shop.

In 2000 Yap began to study biochemistry at Imperial College London, after which she worked as a researcher at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg. She then switched to studying history at the University of Cambridge, completing a master's degree at Sidney Sussex College^[1] and a doctorate at St Catharine's College^[2] on the subject of prisoners of the Japanese during the Second World War.^[3] In 2007, she was elected a junior research fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge.^[4]

Yap worked as a journalist in Singapore and the United Kingdom and has written for The Economist and The Business Times. Her debut novel was a thriller titled Yesterday, followed by her second novel titled Future Perfect.^[5][6][7][8]

• Future Perfect. London: Headline, 2021.^[9]
• Yesterday. New York: Mulholland Books, 2017.^[10]

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