Frances McCue New Member

Poet, Publisher, Writer and Arts Instigator

Poetry Nonfiction

Frances’s poetry books read as novels, taking us through the life of a stenographer who refuses to take dictation (The Stenographer’s Breakfast), or the world of Marrakesh where a tragedy ensues (The Bled). Timber Curtain traces Seattle’s Hugo House building into redevelopment. Her prose collections are The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs, about poet Richard Hugo and the U.S. Pacific Northwest towns he wrote about and Mary Randlett Portraits. McCue’s new literary start-up: Pulley Press, a poetry imprint, celebrates poetry and poets from rural places. It has published Man with a Rake by Ted Kooser and Mankiller Poems by the late Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller. Frances is a Teaching Professor at the University of Washington where she won the UW Distinguished Teaching Award. Her forthcoming book is The Poet in the C-Suite from Columbia University Press.

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Seattle, WA

Birthdate:

20 March

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