Frances Figart

Frances Figart edits Smokies Life Journal and directs the Creative Team at Smokies Life. Camilla and the Caterpillars is her third book for young readers, joining Mabel Meets a Black Bear (2023), and A Search for Safe Passage (2021), recognized as Publication of the Year by the Public Lands Alliance in 2022. Frances grew up at a summer camp in Eastern Kentucky where her mother called their home Hickory Hill. She now lives on a small piece of land in the Cherokee National Forest north of...See more

Frances Figart edits Smokies Life Journal and directs the Creative Team at Smokies Life. Camilla and the Caterpillars is her third book for young readers, joining Mabel Meets a Black Bear (2023), and A Search for Safe Passage (2021), recognized as Publication of the Year by the Public Lands Alliance in 2022. Frances grew up at a summer camp in Eastern Kentucky where her mother called their home Hickory Hill. She now lives on a small piece of land in the Cherokee National Forest north of Asheville, North Carolina, where she once chanced to meet a Hickory Horned Devil in her backyard under a native walnut tree. See less