Rhiannon Hooson

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’, was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year. The judges describd ‘The Other City’ as "Stunning... at a pitch of achievement many of us won’t reach across a career."

She has performed at literature festivals across the UK, and her work has been featured in the Guardian, Magma, and Poetry Wales among others. In the last few years, she has been a Literature Wales bursary recipient, a Hay Festival Writer at Work, poetry editor of Creative Countryside magazine, and the judge of the PENfro festival poetry competition.