Welcome to The Write Question, a program that explores the world of writing and publishing in the Western United States. Our guest today is Frances McCue.

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McCue is a writer and poet living in Seattle where she is the writer-in-residence at the University of Washington's Undergraduate Honors Program. From 1996 to 2006, she was the founding director of Richard Hugo House.

McCue is the author of The Stenographer's Breakfast, winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize.

Her new book, The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs: Revisiting the Northwest Towns of Richard Hugo, is part travelogue, part memoir, and part literary scholarship. It traces Frances McCue and photographer Mary Randlett to the towns that inspired many of Richard Hugo's poems.

Visit Frances McCue's Web site.

See video of Frances McCue's trips and hear her talk about them.

Read a review of The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs, written by Barbara Lloyd McMichael of The News Tribune.

The Write Question is produced by Chérie Newman.

Read an interview with TWQ producer Chérie Newman on the Humanities Montana Web site.

Executive producer, Michael Marsolek.

Special thanks to Lisa Simon, David Moore, Barbara Theroux, and Kim Anderson.

This program is supported in part by Humanities Montana, enriching intellectual, cultural, and civic life for all Montanans. And by the Montana Cultural Trust.

This program included music by Springhill, Aaron Minnick, Michael Marsolek, and Lawrence Duncan.

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Guests on the The Write Question are writers, publishers, and illustrators living, or working for an extended period of time, in the western United States. The Write Question is a production of Montana Public Radio.