Bea Fitzgerald
Bea Fitzgerald is an English novelist. Her debut young adult novel Girl, Goddess, Queen became a Sunday Times bestseller and received a Romantic Novel Award among other accolades.
Early life
Fitzgerald is from Maldon, Essex. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from the University of Reading in 2017.Career
After graduating from university, Fitzgerald landed a marketing job at Scholastic. Fitzgerald then worked as an assistant editor for Hodder & Stoughton. In 2022, she joined the Blair Partnership as a digital agent.In 2022, Fitzgerald signed her first three-book deal with Penguin and Puffin Books, through which she published her debut novel Girl, Goddess, Queen in 2023. The novel is a young adult retelling of the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone. Girl, Goddess, Queen became a Sunday Times bestseller, won a Romantic Novel Award in the Fantasy category, and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Fiction, the YA Book Prize and a Books Are My Bag Readers' Award.
The second and third retellings in the book deal titled The End Crowns All, a sapphic reimagining of the Trojan war, 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, Fitzgerald published her first adult thriller novel Then Things Went Dark.
Personal life
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
Young adult
Girl, Goddess, Queen The End Crowns All- ''A Beautiful Evil''
Adult
- ''Then Things Went Dark''