Katie Fitzgerald is the author of more than thirty published short stories and two collections, Literary Lovebirds and The Bennetts Bloom. Her work has appeared online at Spark Flash Fiction, Havok Publishing, Syncopation Literary Journal, Little Free Lit Mag, Written Tales, and Micromance Magazine, as well as in various anthologies published through Quill & Flame Publishing, Once Upon a Book Club, Twenty Hills Publishing, Nightshade Publishing, Dragon Soul Press, Dragon Bone Publishing, and Nicole Frail Books. She is a 2024 Sparkie Award recipient for Best Romantic Suspense, and she was a 2024 nominee for both the Pushcart Prize and the Cupid Prize. A graduate of Vassar College and a trained librarian, Katie resides in Maryland with her husband and five kids.