"[2] She believes that her life and her art have been shaped by familial abuse, poverty, sexism, battering, and the corruption and materialism of the Canadian society in which she grew up.

[3] She worked as musician in Vancouver, British Columbia in her early 20s, and lived as well in Montreal, where she studied experimental music and tape composition at McGill University.

[4][5] Moving westward again, she ended up in rural Alberta, in the vicinity of Edmonton, where she assembled a band called Cheval de Guerre in the late 1980s.

[6] She has also performed at Victoriaville Festival of New Music (FIMAV) in Victoriaville, Quebec in 1999, and the Sergey Kuryokhin Festival of New Music (SKIF) in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2004 as well as the Fano Free Folk festival in Denmark in 2018 On her album "Little Misery Birds", Yearwood set three William Blake poems to music.

The book was again published in the US by Dumpster Fire Press, et al. | Jun 30 2022 Dumpster Fire Press then published her second novel "Suspicion" Apr 3 2023 She illustrated Rune Kjaer Rasmussens dual-language book "Muldvarpens privatliv / The private life of the mole" in 2024