Mary Kuykendall-Weber holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from West Virginia University and a master's degree in American literature from the State University of New York. After 25 years at General Electric as a publicist and speechwriter, she wrote a book on corporate greed, The House That Jack Blew Down, of which parts were used in GE, Jack Welch and Profits at Any Cost by Tom O'Boyle. A play, Gold Collars, a new category in the traditional labels of blue-, pink- (female workers) and white-collar workers, was more successful, a short version was produced in San Francisco. She is now working on a book entitled The Perils of Pauline in Big Business. She has written some one hundred short stories, with seven published in small press anthologies.