Gwyneth Lewis

Gwyneth Lewis is a prize-winning poet, playwright and novelist, and has also written for opera. National Poet for Wales from 2005-6, she was the first writer to be given the Welsh laureateship. She has published eight collections of poems in English and Welsh and has twice been shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize. In 2012 she was appointed Writing Fellow at the Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester and from 2012-13 a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Swansea University.