Sarah Moore Fitzgerald is an Irish novelist, short story writer, teacher and researcher. Her fiction for children and young adults has won / been shortlisted for several literary prizes including the Jack Harte Bursary, The Calderdale Prize, Scotland’s Red Book Award, The Waterstones’ Prize for Children’s Literature and The Irish Book Awards. Her creative work has been adapted for the stage and translated into over twenty different languages. Sarah is a recent winner of the London Magazine’s annual award for short fiction with her story entitled Matamoros, July 1846 set during the Mexican-American War. She’s a member of the University of Limerick’s creative writing team, founder of UL’s renowned Creative Writing Winter School, and in 2016 was awarded a professorship for her work in teaching enhancement and educational development. A lifelong literacy advocate, Sarah has completed a three-year project in collaboration with Children’s Books Ireland, entitled Every Child a Reader and she works actively with communities to promote and support creative writing. Her academic research includes a focus on the writing process and how creative and academic writers go about the complex, often challenging task of putting their work on paper.