She is the creator of the blog The Chirurgeon's Apprentice, and the writer and host of the Smithsonian Channel TV series The Curious Life and Death of.... She is a resident of the United Kingdom.

O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award,[5] and was named an American Library Association Notable Nonfiction book for 2018.

[citation needed] Fitzharris has written for publications such as The Wall Street Journal,[9] The Guardian,[10] Scientific American,[11] and New Scientist.

[citation needed] Fitzharris is also the writer and host of the television series, The Curious Life and Death of...,[14] which premiered on the Smithsonian Channel in 2020.

Her second book, The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I, about plastic surgery pioneer Harold Gillies, was released in 2022.