Gwyneth Lewis was appointed Wales’ first National Poet for 2005-06, and was responsible for composing the six-foot-high words on the front of the Wales Millennium Centre. She has published six books of poetry in Welsh and English, her first collection in English won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward, as was her second, Chaotic Angels. Her first non-fiction book Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book on Depression (Harper Perennial 2002) was shortlisted for the Mind Book of the Year and is published in the US. It has been translated into Dutch, Czech and Spanish. Her Radio 4 adaptation won a Mental Health in the Media award. Her second book of non-fiction, Two in a Boat: A Marital Voyage, (Fourth Estate, 2005) is published in the UK and US. Gwyneth is a member of Academi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University and has been a Fellow at Harvard in the US.