Rickey Gard Diamond
A journalist and fiction writer, Rickey Gard Diamond has long focused on money, politics, and cultural change. Writing about people in poverty and government policy, she became founding editor of Vermont Woman in 1985. She served as Contributing Editor until 2018. While publishing articles and short fiction, she taught writing and literature, feminist and media studies at Vermont College of Norwich University for over 20 years. In 1999, Calyx Books published her novel, Second Sight, which was reissued by HarperCollins in 2000. In 2011 she was awarded a National Newspaper Association award for her article series, “An Economy of Our Own,” and in 2014 she won a Hedgebrook fellowship for her work on the accliamed non-fiction work about women and the economy, Screwnomics. Meanwhile, her short fiction, published in literary journals, was issued as a collection, Whole Worlds Could Pass Away (Rootstock Publishing, 2017). A mother and grandmother, she lives in Montpelier with her husband, Rootstock Publisher, Stephen McArthur. She’s still organizing, blogging, and connecting with EconoGirlfriends around the world, and has recently established the 501(c)3 non-profit, An Economy of Our Own.. She has been writing a regular column, Women Unscrewing Screwnomics, for Ms. Magazine since early 2019.
Rickey’s novel, Second Sight, is still available from Calyx Books
