Cathy FitzGerald is a writer, radio producer, and documentary maker based in London, England. Her radio documentaries and podcasts have been featured on BBC Radio 4, the BBC World Service, and international broadcasters. Her first radio documentary, The Magic Carpet Flight Manual, received the Radio Academy Production Award in 2010, and she has since received awards from the Third Coast International Audio Festival, Whicker’s World Foundation, and Prix Marulic. FitzGerald is the founder of Strange & Charmed, a school for audio storytelling. She has a doctorate in English literature from the University of Sussex focusing on the works of Charles Dickens. Radio Times has called her “one of radio’s most original voices.”