Yvonne Daley is a writer and educator who has published more than 5,000 news, feature and magazine articles, essays, short stories and poems in such publications as The Boston Globe, People, Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, The Rutland Herald, Vermont Life, Vermont Magazine, the Washington Post, the Milwaukee Journal, Yankee, Sojourner, Dark Horse, Tendril and many others. She is the author of Vermont Writers: A State of Mind, which profiles 21 outstanding contemporary Vermont authors, and co-author of An Independent Man, the biography of Vermont Senator James M. Jeffords, which was published by Simon & Schuster in February, 2003.The recipient of more than 40 national and regional awards in Journalism, including the Associated Press News Editors’ Master Reporter Award, Ms. Daley received the John S. Knight Fellowship in Professional Journalism at Stanford University and the Freedom Forum Fellowship at Indiana University. She has also been a fellow at the Poynter Institute in Saint Petersburg, Florida.

Associate Professor Daley joined the Journalism faculty at San Francisco State University in 1998. She teaches Newswriting, Reporting, Magazine Writing, News Bureau, Feature Writing, Investigative Journalism and has been an advisor to the Golden Gate [X]Press. Sheis also a docent at Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve.

She spends her summers in Rutland, Vermont, where she is director of the Green Mountain Writers Conference, a gathering of writers and would-be writers held annually in Tinmouth, Vermont.

An active freelance writer, she is currently completing Octavia Boulevard, a San Francisco neighborhood memoir.