About the Author

Rickey Gard Diamond grew up and began writing in the Midwest, in the midst of big political changes and family differences. Pursuing a new life as a single mom, she moved her family to Vermont where she finished college and edited a statewide newspaper on issues of poverty. In 1985, she became founding editor of Vermont Woman, where she continues today as a contributing editor. She taught writing and literature, feminist and media studies at Vermont College of Norwich University for over 20 years, while publishing articles and short fiction. In 1999, Calyx Books published her novel, Second Sight, which was republished by HarperCollins in 2000. Her short fiction, previously published in literary journals, was put out as a collection titled Whole Worlds Could Pass Away in 2017 by Rootstock Publishing.She "followed the money" in her journalism, and saw systemic reasons for poverty. Teaching and writing about the uses of language in fiction and non-fiction, she became fascinated by economic "fictions," and presented at the NOW Economic Summit in Atlanta in early 2008, just months before the crash. In 2012, she won a Best Investigative Series from the National Newspaper Association for a five article series titled "An Economy of our Own." The NNA cited her "atypical sources," by which, she says, she supposes they meant women.She was awarded a Hedgebrook fellowship in 2014 to create a book on economics that she envisioned would include cartoons and be readable and even enjoyable. "Economics does include a great deal of funny business," she says about the subject, pointing out Andrea Dworkin's famous statement: Money talks. But it talks in a male voice. Diamond hopes her latest book Screwnomics, which deconstructs the economy's long sexual history and Wall Street braggadocio, will help change that. Women are already making change