She is also the founding editor of Pulley Press, an imprint of Clyde Hill Publishing that focuses on poetry.
After her parents’ divorce in 1963, she spent her early years with her grandparents and mother in Cincinnati and on Cape Cod.
McCue attended boarding schools in New England and received her Bachelor of Arts at the University of New Hampshire.
[1] McCue co-founded Richard Hugo House in 1996 with Linda Breneman and Andrea Lewis.
In the same year, she founded a poetry imprint of Clyde Hill Publishings called Pulley Press.
In 2011 and 2015 she was a finalist for the award in the History/General Nonfiction category, first for her book The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs: Revisiting the Northwest Towns of Richard Hugo and then for Mary Randlett Portraits.