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Frances Ruhlen McConnel Frances Ruhlen McConnel is a poet and writer of short stories and creative nonfiction. She teaches in the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside. She lives in Claremont, California, and her old stomping grounds include Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Anchorage, Alaska, and Seattle, Washington, where she attended the University of Washington. She has published one book of poetry, GATHERING LIGHT, from Pygmalion Press and edited a collection of West Coast Women's Poetry, ONE STEP CLOSER, also from Pygmalion Press. Recently she won the Oneiros Press Broadside Contest and a broadside of her winning poem will appear in the summer. A chapbook of her haiku is due out from Bucket of Type Printery this spring. She is presently working on an eccentric family memoir.
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