Frankie Murrey worked in the book retail sector for many years before becoming the co-ordinator of the annual Cape Town Open Book Festival. In 2015, her work was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. At the end of 2019 she started her own company, FM Project Management, curating or managing creative events and projects. She won the HSS Award for Best Emerging Author in the Fiction Category for her debut collection of interlinked stories, Everyone Dies, in 2024.