Harold Fitzroy is a Canadian-British science fiction writer and former orbital dynamics analyst. Born in 1981 in St. Johns, Newfoundland, he studied astrophysics and theatre at McGill University, then spent a decade modeling debris fields and station rendezvous windows for a private aerospace contractor in Montreal and Seattle. His short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Interzone, and Kaleidotrope, and his novels include Tidal Engines, The Brass Aphelion, and Zero Weather. Since 2019 he has lived in Lisbon, where he teaches narrative design workshops, sails a weather-beaten 28-foot sloop, and collects obsolete star charts.
