Waverly Fitzgerald

Waverly Fitzgerald writes non-fiction on the topics of seasonal holidays, urban nature and family history. Her novels feature a Victorian trance medium, a Cavalier poet and a talking Chihuahua (not all in the same novel).

Waverly wrote her first novel at 13 and sold her third novel at the age of 25. For many years she wrote historical fiction set in Victorian London. She just republished those books--St. John's Wood, Mayfair, Chelsea and Grover Square--under the imprint of Genesta Press.

For the past fifteen years, she's been writing mysteries. She collaborates with her friend, Curt Colbert, on a series of humorous mystery novels about a talking Chihuahua. The first called Dial C for Chihuahua was published by Kensington in October 2012 under the name Waverly Curtis. The fifth book in the series, The Silence of the Chihuahuas, was published in 2015.

In 2007, Waverly published Slow Time: Reclaiming the Natural Rhythms of Life, which helps readers shift their relationship with time. Each of the twelve chapters focuses on a different intervals of time, from the moment to the lifetime. Her interest in time grew out of her obsession with seasonal holidays, a topic featured at her web site Living in Season. She also has compiled holiday information for seasonal holidays and is slowly converting that material into e-book format. Her first offering is Celebrating Spring Equinox.

She has written about seasonal holidays for magazines like SageWoman and web sites like Beliefnet and Amber Lotus, participated in the first national Take Back Your Time Day conference in Chicago (presenting alongside Jay Griffiths) and blogged for Carl Honore, author of In Praise of Slowness. Her interest in time led to a fascination with learning more about how time blossoms in the place where she lives. She is currently writing on a book, My Year in Flowers, about the year she spent getting to know the plants in her urban neighborhood; she blogs as the Urban Naturalist for the Seattle PI.

Waverly has been teaching writing since the publication of her first novel. She teaches writing classes online for Creative Nonfiction and throughout the Seattle area for organizations like Richard Hugo House. Her students have successfully written and published novels and non-fiction books, essays and short stories. Her specialties are the novel, the non-fiction book proposal, memoir and family history. She has presented at national and regional conferences, including San Miguel de Allende Writing Conference, AWP, PNWA, Field's End, Chuckanut Writers Conference, the Whidbey Island Writers Conference and Write on the Sound. She's a member of several Seattle writing organizations including Sisters in Crime and the Seattle 7 Writers, as well as the founder of the Shipping Group.