About the Author

Wendy L. McBride is an instructor with many years of teaching experience in adult education, job readiness training, GED preparation, community college English, and English as a Second Language programs in Arkansas, Illinois and Japan. She earned a B.A. in English and Psychology with a journalism focus from Augustana College (Rock Island, IL) and an M.S. in TESOL and Bilingual Education from Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, IL). Those degrees – and other supplemental educational experiences – include language training in French, Japanese and Russian. The result is in-depth empathy of the language learner and a loose grip on three “second” languages.

Off campus, Ms. McBride gardens, hikes, cooks, travels, and savors any time available in the chaos of her busy family. She is an avid reader and writer, and published The Fishing Widow (a novel) and The American Amusement Park, a historical and pictorial overview, as well as a variety of articles (under her former name: Wendy L. Yegoiants).

She has presented at several TESOL (Teachers of English to Speaker of Other Languages) International conventions and at SETESOL in Arkansas, and she continues to read and write fiction and material from the fields of education and language acquisition.