P.C. Fergusson is a writer whose column Home Front appeared in a string of California newspapers for 15 years. She has also worked as city editor of the Millbrae Sun; reporter for the Peninsula Progress; p.r. hack for Mills-Peninsula Hospitals; office manager for ElectroniCast; lounge singer for the Golden Grommet on Irving St. in San Francisco; telephone solicitor for Timberline Carpet Cleaning Company in Portland, Oregon; bartender for Big Kahuna in the French Quarter of New Orleans (where she once waited on Tennessee Williams who wore a big white hat and was accompanied by a buff young man); waitress at the Charter Way Denny's in Stockton (in a polyester dress and bouffant hair); and waitress to the truck drivers who frequent the Silver Crest Donut Shop, Restaurant and Bar on Bayshore Boulevard in San Francisco--the only establishment on the planet to feature a neon sign which alternates between a donut and a martini glass. She is currently a high school English teacher. Her latest novel is Count All This.
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