John Fitzgerald

John FitzGerald is a poet, writer, editor and attorney in Los Angeles. A dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, he attended the University of West Los Angeles School of Law, where he was editor of the Law Review.

His newest collection of poetry, Favorite Bedtime Stories, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2014. His previous poetry collection, The Mind, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2011.

His first book, Spring Water, was a Turning Point Books prize selection in 2005.

Telling Time by the Shadows was released in April 2008 by Turning Point Books.

As yet unpublished works include Primate, a novel and screenplay and the non-fiction For All I Know.

He has contributed to the anthologies Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman (Knopf, 2015), Poetry: Reading it, Writing it, Publishing it (Salmon Poetry, 2009), Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology (Salmon Poetry, 2011), From the Four Chambered Heart: In Tribute to Anais Nin (Sybaritic Press, 2013) as well as to many literary magazines (The Warwick Review, Barnwood Mag, Askew Poetry Journal, Spillway, Mediterranean Poetry, From the Fishouse, The Passionate Transitory, The American Center for Artists)

John has worked as the Associate Book Editor for Cider Press Review. He has been featured poetry reader at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the West Hollywood Book Fair, on national radio, and at many literary venues throughout the country.