Afonydd

Sian 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 University, 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. She writes novels for adults and children, poetry, editing and translating for others and has had multiple Books Council of Wales 'Books of the Month'.