Fran has lived and travelled in many remote and rural environments including Central Australia, Tasmanian Highlands, and the Canadian Atlantic Province of Newfoundland.
She has worked in Aboriginal child care, then as a flower farmer, photographer, in disabilities and youth theatre, and was Australia’s first female grader driver in the 1970s.
Fran’s first novel, Drawing from the Well, was published by Brolga Publishing in 2005 and set in South Australia’s outback.
Having raised her two sons on a rural homestead in the Otways, in South Western Victoria, Fran presently resides on a river in North West lutruwita/Tasmania with Nettie, stewarding 33 acres of natural forest and waterways.
Francesca Cairns 