McMillan, Frankie

IN BRIEF

Frankie McMillan is a short story writer. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters, and has worked variously as a mobile mental health worker, factory worker, and as a stone sculptor. Her first book of short fiction, The Bag Lady’s Picnic and Other Stories, was published in 2001. Lindsay Botham writes, ‘Acute observations, coupled with achingly clear insight, are the hallmarks of this dazzling collection of short stories.’

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

McMillan, Frankie (1950-) is a short story writer.

Born and raised in Christchurch, McMillan studied at Victoria University of Wellington, where she completed an MA in creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters.

McMillan is the mother of four. She raised her children while living in the Parapara Valley in Golden Bay. She has been described as having tried 'a headlong variety of on-the-edge careers' including caring for the terminally ill, morgue work, mobile mental health worker, factory worker, and as a stone sculptor.

McMillan’s first book of stories The Bag Lady’s Picnic and Other Stories was published in 2001.

Lindsay Botham writes in the Listener, 'Acute observations, coupled with achingly clear insight, are the hallmarks of this dazzling collection of short stories.'
Ross Lay in the Sunday Times called the collection 'a powerful collection of brief but disturbing stories' . Penelope Bieder writes in the Weekend Herald, 'This writing and these stories announce the arrival of a strong new voice on the New Zealand literary scene.'

McMillan lives in Christchurch and is at work on her first novel.

Her most recent work appears in a poetry anthology, The Unbelievable Lightness of Eggs (Hallard, 2006).

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