Rickey Gard Diamond’s fiction ranges from her short stories to her novel, Second Sight (published by Calyx and re-issued by Harper Collins), which Wally Lamb called "heartbreaking and life-affirming, serious and startling, a wonderful first work." Diamond edited the statewide Vermont newspaper on poverty issues, The People’s Voice, was founding editor of the Vermont Woman newspaper, and recently received an investigative reporting award for a series about economics from the National Newspaper Association. In 2015, she received a Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence Award. She earned her MFA in Writing from Vermont College, where she eventually worked as Professor of Liberal Arts for almost 20 years. Her book, Screwnomics: How Our Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Lasting Change (She Writes Press, April 2018), with cartoonist Peaco Todd, explores and overthrows "the economic theory that women should work for less—or better, for free.” As a result of Screwnomics, she was invited and now writes a regular column on economics and women for Ms. Magazine. In addition, she is part of the alliance of feminist economic activists at An Economy of Our Own.org. She lives in Montpelier, Vermont, with her husband and Zelda, their black standard poodle.