Irene Pence

Irene Jean Rorick Pence was born in Omaha, Nebraska. She graduated from the University of Nebraska, with a BS in Business Administration and Arizona State University with an MA in Education. She has also taken many creative writing courses from Southern Methodist University.

Irene is married and has three children. She has won the Dallas Morning News' Golden Pen Award and is published in Business Education Journals.

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