Frances A. Pici (1954?- ) was born in Buffalo, New York. She attended the University in Buffalo, enrolling in the Buffalo Women’s Studies College (WSC), then one of only two Women’s Studies programs in the United States. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Performance Studies, her Master of Arts in Communication and Performance Studies, and her PhD in Film, Theatre, and Performance Studies, all from Georgia State University. In 1974, Pici moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where she joined the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA) and the ALFA Omegas softball team, the first openly lesbian softball team in Atlanta. Pici helped found the Red Dyke Theatre, a lesbian feminist theatre troupe which ran from 1974-1978. After the theatre disbanded, Pici worked as a City of Atlanta umpire and a comedy and mime performer under the stage name Pici. In 1982, she began working for the Cable News Network (CNN) Library and in 1992 helped deploy CNN.com. In 2008, she joined Access Services at Emory University's Woodruff Library, where she managed the Music and Media Library. She later served as the Open Access Repository Analyst at Emory Library’s Scholarly Communication Office.