Gillian Clarke

Born in Cardiff, Gillian Clarke is the National Poet of Wales, as well as a playwright, editor and translator. She is President of Ty Newydd, the writers' centre in North Wales, which she co-founded in 1990. Gillian has been a tutor on the M.Phil. course in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan since 1994. Her poetry is studied by GCSE and A Level students throughout Britain, and she has travelled in Europe and the United States giving poetry readings and lectures; her work has been translated into ten languages. She has a daughter and two sons, and now lives with her husband (an architect) on a smallholding in Ceredigion, where they raise a small flock of sheep, and care for the land according to organic and conservation practice.