Bea Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald is from Maldon, Essex.^[1][2] She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English literature from the University of Reading in 2017.^[3]

After graduating from university, Fitzgerald landed a marketing job at Scholastic.^[3] Fitzgerald then worked as an assistant editor for Hodder & Stoughton. In 2022, she joined the Blair Partnership as a digital agent.^[4]

In 2022, Fitzgerald signed her first three-book deal with Penguin and Puffin Books,^[5] through which she published her debut novel Girl, Goddess, Queen in 2023. The novel is a young adult (YA) retelling of the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone.^[6][7] Girl, Goddess, Queen became a Sunday Times bestseller,^[8] won a Romantic Novel Award in the Fantasy category,^[9] and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Fiction,^[10] the YA Book Prize^[11] and a Books Are My Bag Readers' Award.^[12]

The second and third retellings in the book deal titled The End Crowns All, a sapphic reimagining of the Trojan war,^[13][14] and A Beautiful Evil, based on the myth of Pandora, followed in 2024 and 2025 respectively. Also in 2024 via a two-book deal with Penguin Michael Joseph (PMJ),^[15] Fitzgerald published her first adult thriller novel Then Things Went Dark.^[16]

Fitzgerald is neurodivergent and identifies as both bisexual and asexual.

She grew up in Essex and attended Chelmsford County High School for Girls. She now lives in East London ^{[17][18][non-primary source needed][19][non-primary source needed]}

Young adult

• Girl, Goddess, Queen (2023)
• The End Crowns All (2024)
• A Beautiful Evil (2025)

Adult

• Then Things Went Dark (2024)