kRISTIAN EVANS, FOUNDING EDITOR
Kristian Evans is a Welsh working-class writer, poet and editor exploring ecologies and the more-than-human. In 2023, he was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year. He was co-editor of Magma Poetry 79, a special issue on ‘dwelling,’ funded by an Arts Council of England grant. He has published chapbooks with HappenStance, Unleaving, and Broken Sleep, Otherworlds. He co-edited 100 Poems to Save the Earth (Seren) and is author of the column, A Kenfig Journal, for Sustainable Wales.
Zoë Brigley, FOUNDING EDITOR
Zoë Brigley is editor of Poetry Wales and a poetry editor of Seren Books. Author of three poetry collections from Bloodaxe, all of which were made Poetry Book Society Recommendations, she received an Eric Gregory Award for the best British poets under 30, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and Forward Prize commended. She published Notes from a Swing State: Writing from Wales and America (Parthian, 2019), as well as numerous peer-review journal articles on representations of violence and other publications. With Kristian Evans, she co-edited 100 Poems to Save the Earth (Seren, 2021). She is a Senior Lecturer at the Ohio State University and divides her time between the US and UK. You can find out more about her published work at zoebrigley.com.
TAZ RAHMAN, EDITOR
Taz Rahman is a Cardiff-based writer and literary content creator for the Wales-Books-Council-funded and Literature-Wales-commissioned Youtube poetry channel ‘Just Another Poet‘. His lauded first collection, East of the Sun, West of the Moon (2024) was longlisted for the Laurel Prize, an award for nature poetry written in English. His poems have been published in Poetry Wales, Anthropocene, South Bank Poetry, and more. He was one of three judges for the inaugural Poetry Wales Pamphlet Competition 2021. He is a poetry collection peer-reviewer for the Books Council of Wales and a regular reviewer for Poetry Wales. He was one of 12 writers chosen by Literature Wales for the 2021 Representing Wales writer development programme award and was a Hay Writer at Work.
Siân Melangell Dafydd, EDITOR (cymraeg)
Siân Melangell Dafydd is Professor of Creative Writing at the American University of Paris and tutor at Bangor University, Wales. Her nature column can be read in O’r Pedwar Gwynt online and in print. She is the author of the award-winning novel, Y Trydydd Peth, (2009 National Eisteddfod Literature Medal winner) and her most recent novel was Filò (Gomer, 2020).
GLYN F. EDWARDS, Editor
Glyn F. Edwards’ In Orbit, by Seren, was voted People’s Choice at the Wales’ Book of the Year. His first collection, Vertebrae, was published by the Lonely Press. Glyn is the Writer-in-Residence at the North Wales Wildlife Trust and edits the feature Wild Words for the trust’s quarterly magazine. He is a PhD researcher in Ecopoetry at Bangor University, and has an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from MMU. Glyn works as a teacher in North Wales.
Sarah Bitter, Staff Writer
Sarah Bitter is a writer from Seattle, Washington. Her poetry has been published in Denver Quarterly‘s FIVES, River Mouth Review, The Seventh Wave, and other publications, and has accompanied art at the Page Gallery and the Goldfinch Gallery, while her prose has been featured in Poetry Northwest and EcoTheo Review. Sarah has an MFA from the University of Washington.
INTERVIEW WITH THE FOUNDERS
advisors
With thanks to organizations and individuals who have acted as advisors to MODRON. These include Bad Lilies, editor Kathryn Gray, Nation.Cymru, editor Ifan Morgan Jones, and Wales Arts Review, editor Gary Raymond.
With thanks also to the Books Council of Wales / Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru for their support through the New Audiences scheme.
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