Kathryn Gray

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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