“The poem is always in your hometown, but you have a better chance of finding it in another.”
– Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town

At first, the fences I climbed were geographic. I moved from the east coast to San Francisco and then Seattle. Later, I moved to New York for a year and back to Seattle again. Last year, I lived in Marrakesh. I leapt from place to place, each time, because I wanted to investigate the other side of things.

There are other fences too. There’s one between poetry and prose, one between academic scholarship and creative non-fiction, many between disciplines within a university, and a big fence between the lawns of the university and the streets of the actual city.

I’ve spent my life going back and forth, writing my way from one end to the other, and loving it.

Contact me: frances at francesmccue.com