She gained a degree in English as a mature student and went on to become a full time writer shortly after that.
Fitzgerald has been awarded Hawthornden Castle Fellowship.
Fitzgerald won the Short Story Competition in Notes from the Underground/Latitude Festival in 2009.
In 2015 Fitzgerald was Writer-in-Residence for the University of Manitoba in their Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture.
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