Bea Fitzgerald

Bea Fitzgerald (born 19 August 1996) is an English novelist. Her debut young adult (YA) 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 (BA) in English literature from the University of Reading in 2017.

Career After graduating from university, Fitzgerald landed a marketing job at Scholastic.

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 (YA) 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 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 neurodivergent and identifies as both bisexual and asexual.