Frances has published four collections of short stories. ‘The Clock Museum’, the most recent, was published in June 2021 by Chaffinch Press, Dublin, and she is currently working on a new collection, and (of course) a novel. In 2017 she won the Society of Authors’ Tom-Gallon short story award. She completed the MA in Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University in 2006, and is a member of the Nottingham Writers’ Studio and the Society of Authors.