Yvona Fast is an author, food columnist, and journalist. Her weekly food column, North Country Kitchen, offers a medley of nutritional information, historical facts, and seasonal recipes that help the reader prepare wholesome family meals and achieve a healthy lifestyle. It has run in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise and Lake Placid News since 2005.

Her food articles have been published in magazines like Adirondack Life, E-The Environmental Magazine, and Farming, as well as in newspapers from Massachusetts to California and New Zealand.

Yvona also authored Employment for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome or Nonverbal Learning Disability, a career guide for individuals with these disorders (2004). She co-authored My Nine Lives: A Memoir (2011) with her mother, Dana Fast. Yvona's poems have appeared in Perspectives and Farming.

Available for

Book Fairs, Book Signings, Workshops, Other (Farmers' Markets, Restaurants)

Website

YvonaFast.com

Books

• Loon Summer (2022, Atmosphere Press, View Book Image)
• Good in the Midst of Evil: One Girl's Survival of the Holocaust (2022, Rise, View Book Image) - Co-authored with Dana Fast
• Garden Gourmet: Fresh & Fabulous Meals from your North Country Garden, CSA, or Farmers' Market (2013, Bloated Toe Publishing, View Book Image)
• My Nine Lives: A Memoir (2011, Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation of Canada) - Co-authored with Dana Fast
• Employment for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome or Non-Verbal Learning Disability (2004, Jessica Kingsley Publishers)