Frances Prentice is a mother of six, including one stillborn, who lives with her husband and two youngest children on a cattle property in rural Queensland. She juggles her writing with home schooling, tutoring and running a home school co-op. She loves creating stories with young people and is planning to self-publish works she has co-written with young authors. She has a passion for helping people with reading and writing difficulties so they can experience the joy she has had in literature. She is an avid reader of middle-grade and young adult fiction, who first dreamt of being an author at the age of eight. She always thought she would be middle-aged when she began this career, once she had some life experience.

Frances has been shortlisted twice in Furious Fiction by Australian Writers Centre in 2023. Her short story Uplifted was included in the anthology The Opposite of Disappearing (2021) and I am Vine in Audrey Puzzle Magazine (2020). Her ballad, Love at First Sigh was included in the anthology Tell ‘em They’re Dreaming (2020).  Always Your Sister is her first middle-grade novel, releasing in 2025.