Frances Ruhlen McConnel spent her childhood in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, her teens in Anchorage, Alaska, and her young adulthood in Seattle where she received her Ph.D. in Renaissance Literature at the University of Washington. She has two daughters from her first marriage. She moved to Claremont, California in 1973. She is retired from teaching in the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside. She co-chairs the steering committee that runs the Claremont Public Library’s monthly Poetry Reading Series, Fourth Sundays. She has published a chapbook, White Birches, Black Water, from the Anchorage fine arts press, Bucket of Type Printery. She has two books of poems: Gathering Light, from Pygmalion Press, and The Direction of Longing, from Bellowing Ark Press. She edited the anthology of West Coast women poets, One Step Closer for Pygmalion Press. Her poems, stories, essays and book reviews have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Nation, The Seattle Review, Pearl, The Seattle Weekly, The New York Times Book Review, Women of the Fourteenth Moon, Bear Flag Republic, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Zyzzyva, and The Atlantic Monthly. In 2004 she won the Oneiros Press Broadside Prize.
Paperback: 54 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (May 9, 2019)