Frances McKittrick is a high school senior at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, New York. She is an avid writer of plays and short prose. She is a 2020 YoungArts finalist in playwriting and an honorable mention recipient in Short Story. She also received a Fine Arts Award for playwriting and fiction from Interlochen Center for the Arts in 2018. She has participated in the Adroit Summer Mentorship Program and the Sewanee Young Writers Conference.