{"product_id":"girl-discovered","title":"Girl, Discovered","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrances Ruhlen McConnel\u003c\/strong\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eWhite Birches, Black Water,\u003c\/em\u003e from the Anchorage fine arts press, Bucket of Type Printery. She has two books of poems: \u003cem\u003eGathering Light,\u003c\/em\u003e from Pygmalion Press, and \u003cem\u003eThe Direction of Longing,\u003c\/em\u003e from Bellowing Ark Press. She edited the anthology of West Coast women poets, \u003cem\u003eOne Step Closer\u003c\/em\u003e for Pygmalion Press. Her poems, stories, essays and book reviews have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including \u003cem\u003eThe 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,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Alaska Quarterly Review, Zyzzyva,\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e The Atlantic Monthly. \u003c\/em\u003eIn 2004 she won the Oneiros Press Broadside Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback: 54 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (May 9, 2019)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52268919718184,"sku":"ixr1787286687191","price":11.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/1331\/0760\/files\/girl-discovered_1.jpg?v=1787286692","url":"https:\/\/www.kavolentra.com\/products\/girl-discovered","provider":"Kavolentra Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}