Fran Kirchholtes (she/her/hi) is a writer, stage manager and translator living in Monmouthshire. Born and raised in Germany, she moved to Cardiff after graduating from Heidelberg University with a BA in English and Musicology. There, she completed a MA in Stage & Event Management. She has been reading and writing stories since she was little, taking writing classes and workshops while at University and having some of her work performed there. Since her autism diagnosis in her late 20s, she has started to find her voice on the page and through other people speaking her words. Writing fiction and plays, she is working to raise awareness of the differing presentations of neurodiversity in female presenting and identifying persons. Fran is a member of the inaugural cohort of ‘Reinventing the Protagonist’, a collaboration between Literature Wales and Disability Arts Cymru.
