Else Fitzgerald is a writer based in Sydney. Her writing has appeared in various publications including Australian Book Review, Meanjin, The Guardian, The Suburban Review and Award Winning Australian Writing. Her work has been recognised in awards including the Grace Marion Wilson Prize, the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, the Lord Mayor's Creative Writing Awards, the Fair Australia Prize, the VU Overland Short Story Prize and the Margaret River Short Story Award.

Her collection of short speculative fiction, which explores landscapes, language and technology and the ways they may shift and alter in a radically changing world, won the 2019 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers.

Everything Feels Like the End of the World was published by Allen & Unwin in August 2022. The collection was shortlisted for the 2022 Aurealis Awards and the 2023 University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award.

In addition to her writing, Else has worked with various literary organisations including the Emerging Writers’ Festival, the Wheeler Centre, Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival and the RMIT University Writing & Publishing program.

“A fireworks show of bursting ideas. The strength of this book is more than its beautiful prose, characterisation and concept: here is an emerging writer who has captured the heart of humanity in crisis with such insight that it feels like a revelation.”

— Richell Prize Judges

· Everything Feels Like the End of the World shortlisted for the University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award (2023)

· Everything Feels Like the End of the World shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards, Best Collection (2022)

· ‘Glancing Light’ highly commended in the Boroondara Literary Awards (2021)

· ‘Glancing Light’ longlisted in the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2021)

· ‘Dust & Ash: on writing the end of the world’ shortlisted in the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing (2020)

· ‘Fertile Ground’ (extract) published in The Guardian (2019)

· ‘Slippage’ published in The Near & The Far Vol 2, Scribe (2019)

· ‘Onder’ published in The Suburban Review #14: Detritus (2019)

· ‘Felidae’ published in the Hunter Writers Centre Anthology (2018)

· ‘Onder’ shortlisted in the Victoria University Overland Short Story Award (2018)

· ‘Find you in green’ published by Melbourne Knowledge Week (2018)

· ‘The last time you saw her was on the news’ shortlisted in the Rachel Funari Prize (2018)

· ‘Felidae’ shortlisted in the Newcastle Short Story Award (2018)

· ‘Slippage’ published in The Suburban Review #10: The Stellar Edition (2018)

· 'After the Fire, Before the Flood' shortlisted Lord Mayor's Creative Writing Award (2017)

· 'Felidae' shortlisted in the Overland Fair Australia Prize (2017)

· 'Sheen' published in Joiner Bay & other stories, Margaret River Press (2017)

· 'What I'm Reading' article published by Meanjin (2017)

· 'Whale Teeth' published by Melbourne Knowledge Week (2017)

· 'Sheen' runner up in the Margaret River Short Story Award (2017)

· 'Onder' published on The Suburban Review NGV Series (2016)

· 'Summer 1995' published in The Fish Are Fine, RMIT (2016)

· 'Feather/Stone' published in Cardiff Review, Wales (2015)

· 'Mall' published on Brilliant Flash Fiction (2015)

· 'Feather/Stone' published in Offset Journal, awarded best prose award for that collection (2015)

· 'River' published in Award Winning Australian Writing (2015)

· 'Holiday Photograph' published in Landmarks, National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, UK (2015)

· 'River' published in Victorian Writer (2014)

· 'River' winner of Grace Marion Wilson Prize, Fiction (2014)

· 'The Appearance of Earth' published in Visible Ink (2014)

· 'A Body of Water' published in Australian Book Review (2012)

· 'Skein', part of a suite of three poems titled Loom, exhibited in the Northside Heroes Exhibition held at Tinning Street Gallery in Brunswick (2011)

· 'A Body of Water' highly commended in the Elizabeth Jolley Award (2011)