Seren’s Authors
Information on all Seren’s authors.
Meic Stephens (1938–2018) was born in Treforest, near Pontypridd. Educated at University College, Aberystwyth, he was a French teacher and journalist before becoming Literature Director of the Welsh Arts Council in 1967. He founded Poetry Wales in 1965 and edited the magazine for eight years. A...
Meirion Jordan was born in 1985 in Swansea, Wales, read Mathematics at Sommerville College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize in 2007. He holds an MA in creative writing from UEA, where he is finishing his doctoral degree. His début Moonrise was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best...
Merryn Williams was educated at Cambridge. She has written books on Thomas Hardy, Margaret Oliphant, and women novelists, has had her poetry published in The Bloodstream, and is the translator of The Selected Poems of Frederic Garcia Lorca.
Mervyn Matthews, translator, writer and retired academic, is the author of a number of books about Russia.
Retired Deputy Head Teacher Michael Hall is Vice Chairman of the Francis Brett Young Society and a native of Brett Young's Hales Owen.
Michael O’Brien was born and raised in Ely, Cardiff. He is the author of three books on the subject of false imprisonment, and the prison system in the UK, including his autobiography Death of Justice (2008), and Prisons Exposed (2013).
O’Brien received the largest payout ever by the police to...
Michael Parnell (1934-1991) was for many years Senior Lecturer in English at the Polytechnic of Wales. In addition to editing Gwyn Thomas’s Selected Short Stories, he was also the author of Eric Linklater: A Critical Biography, which won the Yorkshire Post Prize for Best First Work in 1984.
Mihangel Morgan lives in Aberystwyth, where he lectures in modern Welsh literature.
Mike Haines was born in London and educated in Cambridge. He now teaches in Anglesey, having lived in north Wales for some fifteen years.
Mike Jenkins is now a full-time writer and teacher of Creative Writing, after spending over 30 years teaching in Secondary education.
He is former editor of Poetry Wales and is co-editor and founder of Red Poets magazine, which has been going for 15 years. He has won an Eric Gregory Award, Welsh...