kelli fitzpatrick

Kelli Fitzpatrick is a science fiction writer, editor, and educator. Her Star Trek story “The Sunwalkers” won the 2016 Strange New Worlds Contest and is published by Simon and Schuster. She is a contributing writer for the Star Trek Adventures tabletop roleplaying game from Modiphius Entertainment.

Her stories have been published by Baen Books, Flash Fiction Online, KYSO Flash, Crazy 8 Press, and others, and her essays appear at StarTrek.com, Women at Warp, and in anthologies from Sequart, ATB Publishing, and Becky Books. She has written for the NASA Hubble Space Telescope Outreach team and Arizona State University’s Interplanetary Initiative, and has edited for the Dunes Review and the Journal of Popular Culture. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment with a minor in Philosophy from Iowa State University.

A former high school teacher, she is an advocate for public education, the arts, and gender rights and representation. Find her at KelliFitzpatrick.com and on Bluesky and X: @KelliFitzWrites.