Clare Frank

I fought fire for three decades. Now, I write.

Part of me could have stayed in the fire department forever. But a lust for uninterrupted sleep and worn out body parts convinced me to hang up my tattered fire boots and face an inherited affliction: the compulsion to write. Step one: admit I am powerless over it. Step two: unleash it. With thirty years of pent-up stories roiling in my head, I’m starting to relieve the pressure—one tale at a time.