Frances McCue

Frances McCue is an award-winning poet, writer, arts instigator, teacher and start-up entrepreneur. She's the co-founder of Pulley Press, a poetry publishing house that celebrates poets from rural places, Richard Hugo House (a literary center that is one of the nation’s prominent arts organizations) and other projects including a feature documentary, Where the House Was. She is a Teaching Professor at the University of Washington, where she won the UW Distinguished Teaching Award. Her articles have appeared in Indian Country Today, The New York Times Book Review, The Georgia Review, Geekwire, and elsewhere.

Frances’s poetry books read like novels, taking us through the life of a stenographer who refuses to take dictation (The Stenographer’s Breakfast) or into 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.

Her forthcoming book is The Poet in the C-Suite: Bringing Artistry and Voice to Leadership, Innovation, and Teamwork, from Columbia University Press.