Seren’s Authors
Information on all Seren’s authors.
Eleanor Cooke was born in Yorkshire then moved to the Welsh border country. She began to write poetry professionally when the youngest of her four children was two and the eldest seventeen. It wasn’t long before she was widely published, and Seren invited her to submit the first of her collections...
Elizabeth Macklin (born Poughkeepsie, New York, 1952) is the author of two books of poetry, A Woman Kneeling in the Big City (1992) and You’ve Just Been Told (2000). In 1999, an Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship allowed her to spend a year in the Basque Country, in Bilbao, Spain, beginning...
Elizabeth Parker grew up in the Forest of Dean, attended Monmouth Comprehensive School in Wales and currently lives on the harbour in Bristol. She has a BA First Class Hons in English Literature and Creative Writing from Warwick University, an MA in Mythology from Bristol and also has a PGCE in...
Ellen Davis was born in Germany in 1929. Evacuated to Britain on the Kindertransport, she was adopted by a Swansea couple, and still lives in the city. She has given many interviews about her experiences and is a regular public speaker.
Ellie Evans (1942-2012) was born in Carmarthen and was educated in Llandeilo and Cardiff. After reading English at Oxford, she worked in publishing and for the Medical Research Council, before living in Hong Kong, teaching English. She spent most of her adult life teaching in London, but later...
Emily Blewitt was born in Carmarthen, Wales. She read English Language and Literature at St Hilda’s College, Oxford (2004-2007), and has an MA in Film and Literature from the University of York (2009). She recently completed a PhD at Cardiff University, where her doctoral research explored the...
A writer, performer and community arts facilitator in south Wales, Emily Hinshelwood’s poetry has been published in many literary magazines including Poetry Wales, Ambit, Aesthetica, and New Welsh Review. She has won the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry, and was shortlisted for the Bridport prize...
Emyr Humphreys (1919-2020) was born in Prestatyn, denbighshire. He is the author of twenty novels in English and Welsh, and has also published collections of stories and poetry. He has written screenplays and adapted other works for television and radio, in addition to producing and directing in...
Eoghan Walls was born in Derry in Northern Ireland. He studied in Wales, Dublin and Belfast, where he completed a PhD in Phenomenological Poetics in the Seamus Heaney Centre. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2006, an Irish Art's Council Bursary in 2009, and his work has been published widely in...
Eric Ngalle Charles was born in the west African state of Cameroon, a country rich in mythology and natural beauty, but with a troubled colonial history. Arriving in Wales as a near-penniless migrant, after being trafficked to Russia by a criminal gang, he has remade his life as a poet/writer. He...