Jackie Pentecost is the author of Blowing Up Walmart and Other California and Florida Stories. Originally from California, she now lives in Florida, teaching English for the unlettered and for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). She also struggles with the computer and someday hopes to be as proficient at the infernal machine as an average four year old.
Her style is derived from her journalism major in college, where she learned economy of expression and the potential power derived from words. She considers herself to be a writer of humor with a sting. She recognizes her own foibles and appreciates them in others.