Seren’s Authors
Information on all Seren’s authors.
Mark Valentine is on the advisory board of the Arthur Machen Society, and has written and spoken widely about Machen himself and the Decadent literature of the late nineteenth century in general.
Martin Bax is a world-renowned Consultant Paediatrician, and Editor of the long-running literary journal Ambit. He lives in London and the Welsh Marches.
Martin Griffiths is an astronomer and science presenter with Dark Sky Wales, a former senior lecturer in Astronomy at the University of South Wales, and a founder member of NASA’s Astrobiology Science Communication team. He assisted the Brecon Beacon national parks successful campaign to gain...
Martin Shipton has written about the National Assembly from its outset, initially as Chief Reporter of Wales on Sunday and, since 2002, as Chief Reporter of the Western Mail. He is an awardwinning journalist of thirty years standing and a graduate of the School of Journalism at Cardiff. As a...
Martyn Crucefix has won numerous prizes including a major Eric Gregory award and a Hawthornden Fellowship. He has published 7 collections of poetry including Hurt (Enitharmon, 2010): “an exceptional ear . . . superbly intelligent . . . urgent, heartfelt, controlled and masterful.” (Kathryn Maris,...
A graduate of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Mary Davies Parnell has taught French in schools in England and Wales for almost three decades. Now retired, she lives in Cardiff.
Mary J. Oliver trained in the visual arts before switching to writing full time ten years ago. Her poems have appeared in many periodicals and anthologies in the UK and US. Competitions won include those judged by Paul Muldoon and Ruth Padel. Her first book, Jim Neat: The Case of a Young Man Down...
Mary-Ann Constantine works on Romantic period Welsh literature, in both Welsh and English, at Aberystwyth University and has published widely in these fields since 1996. She has held a succession of Research Fellowships in the Welsh Department in the University of Aberystwyth. Her short stories...
Maura Dooley is a much admired poet and editor, who would like to write a novel. She is a freelance writer and arts administrator in London.
Mavis Nicholson was born in 1930 In Briton Ferry, in south Wales. After university, she became an advertising copywriter and then a fulltime mother. She was a forty year old mother of three when she began presenting ‘Good Afternoon’, which was followed by many other programmes, including ‘Mavis on...