New Welsh Review Board

Jem Poster (Chair)
JEM POSTER holds the Chair of Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. He is the author of two novels, Courting Shadows (Sceptre, 2002) and Rifling Paradise (Sceptre, 2006). Courting Shadows has been published in translation in Spain, Germany and Poland, and was published in the US by Overlook Press in 2008. Rifling Paradise has appeared in German translation, with Spanish and Polish translations forthcoming; it was published in the US in 2009. He has won first prize in both the Cardiff International Poetry Competition and the Peterloo Poets Open Poetry Competition; his poetry collection, Brought to Light, was published by Bloodaxe in 2001. He is academic director of the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival’s creative writing programme.
www.aber.ac.uk

Sarah Morse (Vice Chair)
Sarah Morse is a PhD student at CREW (the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales), Swansea University. Born in west Wales in 1981 and brought up on a farm, Sarah was more often to be found inside with a book rather than oustide in the fields. An interest in literary depictions of landscapes, environment, space and place has enabled her to enjoy the best of both worlds. Treasurer of the Association of Welsh Writing in English, she has been a board member since August 2007.
www.swan.ac.uk/english/awwe

Malcolm Thomas (Treasurer)
Director, Broomfield & Alexander
www.broomfield.co.uk

Kathryn Gray (Secretary)
Kathryn Gray was born in Caerphilly in 1973 and brought up in Swansea. After graduating from the University of Bristol with a degree in German, she completed an MA in Medieval Studies from the University of York. Kathryn received an Eric Gregory Award in 2001 and, in the same year, was shortlisted for the Poetry Society’s Dearmer Prize for best new poet. Her first collection, The Never-Never, was published by Seren in 2004 and subsequently went on to be nominated for the Forward Best First Collection Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize. Kathryn is a widely published critic in periodicals such as the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales and Agenda. From 2007-2009 she served on the Academi Bursaries Panel, before joining the Academi Management Board. She is currently completing her first work of creative non-fiction and a second collection of poems. Kathryn became editor of New Welsh Review in 2008.
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Patricia Duncker
PATRICIA DUNCKER is the author of five novels, Hallucinating Foucault (1996), winner of the McKitterick Prize and the Dillons First Fiction Award, James Miranda Barry (1999) and The Deadly Space Between (2002). Her fourth novel, Miss Webster and Chérif (Bloomsbury, 2006) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, 2007. She has published two collections of short fiction, Monsieur Shoushana's Lemon Trees (1997), shortlisted for the Macmillan Silver Pen Award, and Seven Tales of Sex and Death (2003), all of which have been widely translated. Her critical work includes a collection of essays on writing, theory and contemporary literature, Writing on the Wall (2002). Her fifth novel, The Strange Case of the Composer and his Judge, will be published by Bloomsbury in March, 2010. She is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester.
www.bloomsbury.com

Katie Gramich
Reader, School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University
www.cardiff.ac.uk

Philip Gross
PHILIP GROSS is a writer of many parts - from Faber and Bloodaxe poet to writer of thought-provoking fiction for young people. His latest poetry collection is The Water Table (Bloodaxe, 2009), and I Spy Pinhole Eye, with photographer Simon Denison (2009) from Cinnamon Press. He has published ten teenage novels - most recently The Storm Garden (OUP). His books of children’s poetry include The All-Nite Café which won the Signal Award, with a new collection Off Road To Everywhere due from Salt in 2010. Since 2004, he has been Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University, and lives in Penarth.
www.philipgross.co.uk

Simon Harris
Simon Harris is a dramatist and theatre director. Born and brought up in Swansea, he studied English at University College, London and originally trained at RADA. Simon worked as an actor for twelve years with many of the country’s leading directors and companies. He established Thin Language Theatre Company and was its Artistic Director until 1999. His first play Badfinger premiered at The Donmar and he has been under commission at the National Theatre and Soho Theatre. Until 2007, Simon was Artistic Director of the national company for new writing in Wales – the multi-award-winning Sgript Cymru, where he was responsible for a rolling programme of new work including over twenty productions. In 2009, Simon won a highly prized Creative Wales Award to enable him to develop new and innovative theatre projects. Simon is also a 2005/06 Fellow on the prestigious Clore Leadership Programme - the first to be selected from Wales - and a National Adviser to The Arts Council of Wales.
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Robert Lewis
Novelist
www.serpentstail.com

Tiffany Murray

TIFFANY MURRAY’s second novel is Diamond Star Halo. Her first novel, Happy Accidents was short-listed for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. She is a graduate of UEA’s M.A. fiction and PhD programmes and is currently Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at The University of Glamorgan. Tiffany’s writing has also appeared in The Times, The Independent and The Observer Music Monthly. www.davidhigham.co.uk/html/Clients/Murray


Nicholas Spice
Publisher, London Review of Books
www.lrb.co.uk

David Woolley
DAVID WOOLLEY was born in Plymouth in 1958. He left school at 16, having failed Eng. Lit. ‘O’ level. After five ill-spent years in the legal profession he travelled and worked widely, and has been a TEFL teacher, ice-cream seller, painter & decorator, fruit picker, builder’s mate, factory-hand and artist’s model to name a few! He edited and published Westwords literary and arts magazine and associated poetry collections and anthologies from 1987-1993. After doing an Access to HE Course with Exeter University, he read English & Education at Cardiff University from 1988-1991. Since January 1992 he has made a living in literature, chiefly as an events organiser, but also as reviewer, tutor and consultant. He was Literature Development Officer in Essex 1992-94, and for the UK Year of Literature in Swansea 1994/95. Since the end of ‘95 he has been Literature Officer for Swansea, and has organised twelve Dylan Thomas Festivals. He was the first Chair of the National Association for Literature Development. He was Chair of Festivals of Wales for three years, and is a Fellow of Academi, of which he has been a Board Member for over ten years. He has published three collections of poetry, most recently Written on our Hands (Headland), with a fourth due from Headland in early 2010. (Image courtesy of Bernard Mitchell)
www.dylanthomas.com