Seren’s Authors

Information on all Seren’s authors.
R D Cook was a founding member of staff at Brockwood Park School in Hampshire. He then trained as a therapist and developed and managed a range of intensive programmes for serious offenders with the Probation Service. He also worked as supervisor of counselling and trainer with several Westminster...
R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) was one of the leading poets in post-war Britain, the foremost English language poet in Wales and the outstanding religious poet of his time. The author of over twenty collections of poetry, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize.
R.W. Jones is author of Lonely's Game. His other novels include Saving Grace, Cop-Out, The Green Reapers and Seeds in the Wind.
Rachael Clyne from Glastonbury, is widely published in journals and anthologies. Her prizewinning collection, Singing at the Bone Tree (Indigo Dreams), concerns our broken connection with nature. Her pamphlet, Girl Golem (4word.org), explores her Jewish migrant heritage and sense of otherness. Her...
Rachel Carney is a Cardiff based poet, book reviewer, creative writing facilitator and researcher. She grew up in Sheffield, and has spent time living and working in various parts of the UK, as far afield as Aberystwyth, Newcastle upon Tyne, Grasmere and Oxford. She worked in museum learning,...
Raymond Garlick was Principal Lecturer in English Studies at Trinity College, Carmarthen. Poet, co-founder and editor of The Anglo-Welsh Review, he was a pioneer researcher into the history of English language writing in Wales, and author of the influential An Introduction to Anglo-Welsh Literature...
Rebecca Perry was born in London in 1986. She graduated from the Centre of New Writing at The University of Manchester in 2008 with a master's degree in Creative Writing and now lives and works back in London.Rebecca has had work recently published in Iota, Smiths Knoll, The Manchester Review and...
Rhian is a multi-award winning poet. Her first collection of poems Clueless Dogs (Seren) won Wales Book of the Year 2013, the Roland Mathias Prize for Poetry 2013 and Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice 2013. It was also shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2012. Her...
Rhian Elizabeth was born in 1988 in the South Wales Valleys. She writes mostly fiction and her first novel, set in those valleys, was Six Pounds Eight Ounces, published by Seren in April 2014. More recently, her short stories have been published in various anthologies, and she is currently...
Dr Rhiannon Hooson is a Welsh poet and author.  She has won major awards for her work, including an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, and her first book, The Other City (Seren, 2016), was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award. She has performed at literature festivals...