Sunday, March 9, 2025
The Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series will present writer and documentarian Cathy FitzGerald at noon March 17 in the Understory, B50 in the Cathedral of Learning.
FitzGerald is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4, 3 and the World Service, presenting and producing programs on subjects including magic carpets, gravedigging and why we like looking at the blue sky.
Her audio work has won Arias, Third Coast Festival, Whicker's World Foundation, APA and Prix Marulic awards. She's the author of the “Pinch Perkins” series of middle grade novels and has a DPhil in the work of Charles Dickens. Radio Times magazine called her ‘one of radio’s most original’ creators.