Dubbed the “Angst Queen” by her writer’s group, Violet Fitch specializes character driven contemporary and fantasy romance. She has a penchant whip-smart women with big hearts, deep wounds, and moody, atmospheric settings.

She is a late-diagnosed autistic woman who cares deeply about representations of grief, mental and physical health, and generational trauma. She believes no great love story is complete without equal parts snort laughter and big cries, and the most rewarding happily ever after’s are hard-won.

Violet is a classically trained actress who found herself writing plays, poetry, and stories from the moment she learned to put pen to paper, and filled her hours with creative writing classes between Shakespeare. She’s been a featured writer in literary magazines and worked for years as a professional commercial actress and sketch comedy writer in Hollywood, including a stint as a house performer and writer at Second City. After her first endometriosis surgery caused permanent nerve damage that prevented her from walking for nearly a year, she turned a short screenplay into her first complete novel and never looked back.

She adores progressive small town romance, all things autumnal nostalgia, second chances, and female rage. Her favorite pairing is Grumpy x Black Cat, and she has a soft spot for historic architecture and women with niche interests that send her down research rabbit holes. She is profoundly against the use of generative AI at any stage of the creative process.

She brings a certain shelves her smut next to Ishiguro and Vonnegut vibe to the function, and her favorite quote is from Emily Dickinson’s love letters to Susan Gilbert: “But my heart wants more.”