Frances McCue

Frances McCue, an award-winning poet and arts administrator.

Life

She got her Bachelor of Arts at the University of New Hampshire. She graduated from Columbia University PhD, where she was a Klingenstein Fellow, and the University of Washington with an MFA. She is an adjunct professor of Education at Seattle University and the University of Washington.

She co-founded Richard Hugo House in 1997. She served ten years as director.

Her work has appeared in MS Magazine, New York Times Book Review,^[1] Pittsburgh Post Gazette, The Stranger,^[2] The Seattle Times,^[3] Nest Magazine, Teachers College Record and Seattle Social Justice.

Awards

McCue has received grants and residencies from Centrum, Artist Trust, 4Culture, Hedgebrook, Echoing Green Fellowship from 1998-2002. McCue's book, The Bled won the 2011 Washington State Book Award for poetry. Her book The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs: Revisiting the Northwest Towns of Richard Hugo was a finalist for the 2011 Washington State Book Award in the History/General Nonfiction category.

Works

• "Mary of the Woods, of the City: A Prayer"; "Mother and Clone"; "New Anthropology", Caffeine Destiny
• "WORK, FATE AND SCENIC LANDSCAPE", Square Lake 6, 2004
• "Us, Back Round", Tarpaulin Sky, Spring 2007
• The Stenographer's Breakfast. Beacon Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-8070-6817-5.
• The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs. University of Washington Press. 2010.
• The Bled. Factory Hollow Press. 2010.

Essay

• "Self-Hatred Can Be Funny", Poetry Foundation

References

1. Mccue, Frances. The New York Times http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/features/books/bookreviews/index.html?s=closest&&query=Frances+McCue&field=body&match=all. Retrieved 2010-05-02. Missing or empty |title= (help)
2. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Author?oid=300
3. http://search.nwsource.com/search?query=Frances+McCue&topic=Arts&from=ST&searchtype=ST

External links

• "Frances McCue", 2006 Jack Straw Writers Program