Bea Fitzgerald (born 19 August 1996) is an English novelist. Her debut young adult novel Girl, Goddess, Queen (2023) became a Sunday Times bestseller and received a Romantic Novel of the Year 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 got 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 Books 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 of the Year 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 myth retellings sold 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 (PMJ), Fitzgerald published her first adult thriller novel Then Things Went Dark.
She is a writing coach at The Novelry.
Personal life Fitzgerald is autistic and identifies as both bisexual and asexual.
Bibliography Young adult Girl, Goddess, Queen (2023) The End Crowns All (2024) A Beautiful Evil (2025) This Divine Revelry (2026)
Adult Then Things Went Dark (2024) Better Than Revenge (2026)
Accolades +YearAwardCategoryTitleResult 2023 Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards Young Adult Fiction Girl, Goddess, Queen 2024 Waterstones Children's Book Prize Older Fiction Romantic Novel Awards Fantasy YA Book Prize—| 2025 The End Crowns All
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