Ruth Fitzgerald

Represented by Gemma Cooper

Ruth Fitzgerald was born in Bridgend, South Wales. She grew up in a happy, chaotic family with far too many brothers.

When she was six years old she wrote her first story, ‘Mitzi the Mole Gets Married’ and immediately announced she wanted to be a writer. Her teacher immediately advised her that writing was a hobby and she needed to get a proper job. Since then she has tried twenty-three proper jobs, including teaching English in Japan, being a social worker and selling candles on a market stall. She has learned a lot from these experiences, mainly never to trust a teacher.

Ruth lives in Suffolk with her husband and their three children and five chickens. Her middle-grade series featuring the exploits of disaster prone Emily Sparkes is published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Ruth is also the author of middle-grade non-fiction books FIND YOUR GIRL SQUAD and SPLIT SURVIVAL KIT, both with Dr. Angharad Rudkin.

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