Emily Blewitt is the author of This Is Not A Rescue (Seren Books, 2017) and was the poetry submissions editor for New Welsh Reader. She has published poetry in The Rialto, Poetry Wales, Ambit, and The North, among others, and was Highly Commended in the 2016 Forward Prizes. Emily has appeared at Hay Festival, on Radio 4, and has collaborated with other writers and artists on the Weird and Wonderful Wales project. She is a Community Librarian for Awen and a tutor in Creative Writing for Cardiff University’s Pathways to a Degree programme. Emily is the recipient of a Literature Wales bursary, and is currently working on a novel. She lives in Bridgend with her husband and son.
