About Yvonne Daley

Yvonne Daley is a journalist, book author, educator, publisher and director of a writers’ conference in Vermont. In her writing, she has concentrated on issues at the heart of what it is to be living on this beautiful planet: the environment, creativity, human rights, community, war and peace, resilience and healing. These subjects are always in context with the human story as she employs real people’s stories to illustrate, for example, a community’s response to devastation in the wake of a tropical storm or a young athlete’s disabling head injury; the clash between progressive politics and new money as seen in an iconic San Francisco neighborhood; or, as in her most recent nonfiction book, the impact of the counterculture on Vermont and the state’s impact on the generation of hippies, back-to-the-landers, dreamers and political activists who moved by the thousands into the tiny state in the 1960s and 1970s.

Since moving to Vermont herself as a young hippie in 1967, she has called Vermont home, even when working elsewhere.The mother of five children, Yvonne  lived in the mountain town of Goshen  where she briefly raised milk goats and grew the family’s vegetables. Subsequently, she worked for 18 years as a journalist for the Rutland Herald, Boston Globe, Time, Life, People, Washington Post and many other publications, winning many of the profession’s top prizes including Vermont Reporter of the Year, the New England News Editors’ Master Reporter Award and the John S. Knight Fellowship in Journalism at Stanford University. She is the founder and director of the Green Mountain Writers Conference and founder and publisher of Verdant Books, a writers’ collaborative. For 17 years, she taught journalism at San Francisco State University. She is married to the writer Chuck Clarino and together they raise Maltese dogs at their home in Rutland where she restores her mental health by gardening, making pies and visiting with her children, grandchildren, friends and neighbors. Stories are at the heart of it, the stories we tell about ourselves and others, stories that help us to understand one another, to find solutions, to each do our best to make the world a safe and enduring place.