Sian NortheySian Northey is a freelance author, poet, translator and editor. Sian was brought up in Trawsfynydd, and now lives in Penrhyndeudraeth in Gwynedd. As a (very!) mature student she gained a PhD in Creative Writing at the School of Welsh at Bangor Univesity, the university where she'd done her first degree, in Zoology, decades earlier. Amongst other projects she is currently working on a collection of essays and doing background research for a play involving chapels who continue to hold services with only two or three in the congregation. Her translation of John Sam Jones' autobiography (The Journey is Home/Y Daith Ydi Adra) will be published by Parthian this spring.She was chosen to be part of Hay Festival's Writers at Work scheme in 2016 and 2017. In 2018 she was invited by Literature Across Frontiers to attend an international poetry translation workshop in Kerala, India, and was also chosen to be part of an international artistic retreat on Ynys Enlli/Bardsey under the auspices of Write4Word and Kultivera (Swedish arts organisation). In 2019 she was part of the Theatr Genedlaethol's new writers' scheme, which culminated with a rehearsed public reading at Theatr Gwynedd and Theatr Clwyd of her play 'Un Tro'. Another short play was part of a performance by Dirty Protest. Read More Read Less