John FitzGerald is a poet and attorney for the disabled. His poetry collections include Favorite Bedtime Stories, finalist for the Julie Suk Book Award, and The Mind, semifinalist for the Alice James Book Award, (both from Salmon Poetry). Other works include The Essence of Life, Primate, a novel and screenplay, and the non-fiction For All I Know.
He is widely published in literary journals and anthologies, notably The Warwick Review, World Literature Today, The Taos Journal of Poetry and Art, December, From the Fishouse, The American Journal of Poetry, Plume, Human and Inhuman Monstrous Poems, From the Four-Chambered Heart: In Tribute to Anais Nin, and Poetry: Reading it, Writing it, Publishing it.