Frankie Murrey worked in the book retail sector for many years before becoming the director of Open Book Festival. In 2015, her work was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. 

In 2023, she published her debut collection Everyone Dies which won the HSS Award for Best Emerging Writer in the fiction category. In 2025, A Collection Of Gaps, her second volume of stories was published.

Frankie Murrey’s “Sneaking Up On Myself”—which explored her writing process and the challenges and rewards of festival organisation—became the twelfth Literatea interview published in Doek! Literary Magazine.

More from and about Frankie Murrey: “It’s A Festival Of Conversation And Space For Gathering” (Sunday Times) • “Open Book Festival 2014: Interview With Frankie Murray” (LitNet) • “Open Book Festival 2018: An Interview With Frankie Murray” (LitNet) • “Q&A With Open Book Festival Programme Coordinator Frankie Murray” (Sunday Times)