Frances Chapman's short fiction and essays have been published in periodicals and online, including Bread Wine and Thou, Ampersand Magazine, Rag and Bone, Theatre People, Lip Almanac, and Famous Reporter . She attended HARDCOPY 2014, where her manuscript Chloe Kaplan Is Dead was selected as one of ten outstanding manuscripts for Round 2 of the program. She has since completed her second manuscript. She lives in Sydney with her partner and daughter, and a winsome hound named Roscoe.