Frances McCue is a poet and prose writer who lives in Seattle, WA. A Public Scholar, McCue is Writer in Residence and Lecturer in the Honors Program at the University of Washington. From 1996 to 2006 she directed Seattle's Richard Hugo House, a literary center which she co-founded. In 2010, her book about Richard Hugo and Northwest towns, The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs, came out from the University of Washington Press. Beacon Press published The Stenographer's Breakfast, her first book of poems.