Fran Hurcomb arrived in the North in 1975 and never left. Over the years, Fran has alternated between writing and photography as her main occupations. She has written and supplied photos for articles on many northern topics, for a wide variety of magazines both in Canada and internationally.

Her first published book was a children’s picture book called “One Lucky Fish” (1999). Since then she has published two northern pictorial histories; “Trapline to Finish Line” (2001) about the Canadian Championship Dog Derby, and most recently “Inspired by Dreams; the story of the Arctic Winter Games” (2008). Her latest book, a children’s novel about a girls’ hockey team, entitled “Going Places” was published by Orca Book Publishers last fall (2008).

While awaiting fictional inspiration, Fran has put together four photo based Aboriginal language books for Yellowknife School District 1. The two most recent, “How to Tan a Moosehide in the Way of the Yellowknives Dene” and “Building a Dogrib Birchbark Canoe” were released in the fall of 2009.
Fran lives with her family in Yellowknife, NWT, overlooking Great Slave Lake.