Yvonne is a fifth generation Michigander who grew up on the family farm under the tutelage of a grandmother who loved Shakespeare before Shakespeare was cool.

After college and a stint in the Buckeye State, she and her husband moved back to the farm founded by her great-great-grandfather and renovated a house with a view of the lowlands and a room for writing.

She is a Pushcart-nominated poet and novelist, and her poetry and short stories can be found in The Slippery Elm Literary Journal, Flapper Press, Third Coast Review, Full of Crow, Midwest Review, Great Lakes Review, and the Milk House Literary Magazine.