Cradle of Lightning: A Story of Botswana

Author Bio: Francine Walls

Francine Walls hails from the Pacific Northwest. She holds master’s degrees in English and librarianship from the University of Washington and a doctorate in education from Seattle University. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems appear in the writing handbook, Writing Across Cultures, the anthology, Peace Poems v. 2, and numerous journals. In late 1971, she traveled to Botswana with her young son, Chris, to teach English and typing for a year at Shashe River School in Tonota, Botswana, near Francistown and the Rhodesian border.