Seren’s Authors
Information on all Seren’s authors.
Jenny Lewis is a poet, playwright, translator and songwriter who teaches poetry at Oxford University. She has had eight plays and poetry cycles performed at major theatres including the Leicester Haymarket, The Polka Theatre (for children), the Royal Festival Hall and Pegasus Theatre, Oxford where...
Professor Jeremy Hooker was born in Hampshire in 1941. He was a lecturer at University College, Aberystwyth, for nineteen years, and is the author of several volumes of poetry, included a selected, A View from the Source. He has recently begun teaching at the University of Glamorgan.
Jim Saunders is a writer and photographer based in Knighton, Powys. He is the author of Offa’s Dyke (Gomer/BBC Wales, 2006), and is a former Offa’s Dyke Path Officer. Jim’s nature photographs also illustrate Natur y flwyddyn, by Bethan Wyn Jones and he regularly lectures about his photography,...
Jo Mazelis is the author of short stories, non-fiction and poetry. Her collection of stories, Diving Girls (Parthian, 2002), was short-listed for the Commonwealth 'Best First Book' and Wales Book of the Year. Her second book, Circle Games (Parthian, 2005), was long-listed for Wales Book of the Year...
Joanne Ashcroft has published widely in journals and is the author of From Parts Becoming Whole (Knives, Forks, Spoons Press, 2011). She is currently researching a PhD on the work of Maggie O’Sullivan, Bill Griffiths and Geraldine Monk.
Jocelyne Lawton was a ’laboratory technician turned naturalist’ and an enthusiastic self-taught photographer. She married a countryside warden and lived in the Bryngarw Country Park near Bridgend, where many of the photographs in this book were taken. She had two cats, Benedic and Beatrice, who...
John Ackerman (1934 - 2004) was born in Maesteg and educated at the Universities of London and Wales. He was for many years a lecturer in English, first in Barry and then in London.
John Allison is Editor of Opera and Music Critic on The Daily Telegraph. From 1994-2005 he was a Music Critic on The Times, and from 2005-14 on The Sunday Telegraph. He has written for leading newspapers around the world, including the New York Times, and is a regular contributor to BBC Music...
John Barnie was born and raised in the market town of Abergavenny. He has published published seven collections including Sea Lilies: Selected Poems 1984 - 2003 for Seren. His work has appeared in a wide variety of journals and anthologies and has won a Welsh Arts Council Prize for literature. He...