Christopher Meredith is a poet, novelist and currently lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan. Born in Tredegar and educated at Abersytwyth and Swansea, he worked for some time in a south Wales steel plant, and as a teacher. His novels are Shifts, Griffri, Sidereal Time and The Book of Idiots, and he is the author of two collections of poetry, Snaring Heaven and The Meaning of Flight. His books are taught in universities in Wales and England.

Sheenagh Pugh inteview with Christopher Meredith.