Greenslade earned a degree in English at the University of Winnipeg before moving to Vancouver, British Columbia, where she completed her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in 1992.
In 2005 Frances and her family moved to Penticton, in the southern Okanagan, where her love of British Columbia's landscape flourished and was a source of inspiration in writing Shelter, her first novel.
[1] Greenslade now lives in Penticton, British Columbia, where she teaches English Literature at Okanagan College.
[3] Greenslade says of the book during an interview with the Winnipeg Free Press, "Shelter looks at the expectations we have of our mothers, our first shelter, and the shock that comes when we realize they are more than just our mothers, but women with lives that don't always include us.
Once you get caught, you find yourself caring about these characters, wanting to know what they will do next, how they will survive"[5] and the Toronto Star said, "Shelter is a beating heart of a book, alive with Greenslade's fierce imagination, her acute descriptions of the natural world, her sure hand with narrative.