YVONNE DALEY is author of more than five thousand news, feature, and magazine articles that have appeared in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Poets and Writers, Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, Vermont Life, Yankee, and many other publications. She has published numerous stories, essays, and poems, and is co-author of An Independent Man, the biography of Senator James M. Jeffords. A resident of Rutland and San Francisco, she is associate professor of journalism at San Francisco State University and director of the Green Mountain Writers Conference in Tinmouth, Vermont.