Skoulding, Zoë

Zoë Skoulding has lived in north Wales since 1991.She is Research Fellow in the School of English at Bangor University, exploring relationships between poetry and city space, and co-ordinates the University's part-time courses in literature and creative writing. She has been involved in various cross-artform projects and is a member of the group Parking Non-Stop. Having launched the literary magazine Skald in 1994, she became Editor of Poetry Wales in 2008.

Skoulding, Zoë

Zoë Skoulding’s most recent collection is The Mirror Trade (Seren, 2004), and her next book, ’Remains of a Future City’, will be published by Seren in 2008. She co-edits the literary magazine ’Skald’ with Ian Davidson and their collection of collaborative poems, ’Dark Wires’, was published by West House Books in 2007. She holds an AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts in the School of English at Bangor University where she also lectures part-time in the School of Lifelong Learning. Her psychogeographical music project with Dewi Evans and Alan Holmes is at www.parkingnonstop.com

Smith, Dai

Prof Dai Smith is Pro Vice Chancellor of the University of Glamorgan and formerly Head of Broadcasting (English) at BBC Wales. He has written extensively on Welsh history, in particular Aneurin Bevan, Raymond Williams and wider cultural facets such as rugby.

Smith, Stuart

Stuart Smith was born in Epsom in 1965. He was educated at Farnborough Sixth Form College and at Gwent College where he completed a Degree in Graphic Design. He now lives and photographs in London.

Spicer, Paul

Paul Spicer's is Organist at Lichfield Cathedral and Professor of Choral Conducting at the Royal College of Music. He is an acclaimed composer in his own right

Stead, Peter

Peter Stead was born in Barry in 1943. He was educated at Barry and Gowerton Grammar Schools and at University College, Swansea. He has twice been a Visiting Fulbright Scholar in the USA, at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, in 1973-4 and at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 1988-9. He is the author of Coleg Harlech (1976), Film and the Working Class (1989, 1991) and Richard Burton: So Much, So Little (1991). For BBC Wales he wrote and presented a television film on How Green Was My Valley (1991) and Dennis Potter (1993). A former History lecturer at Swansea University, Peter Stead is now a freelance broadcaster and writer.

Stephens, Meic

Meic Stephens, was born at Treforest, near Pontypridd, in 1938. Educated at University College, Aberystwyth, he was a French teacher and journalist before becoming Literature Director of the Welsh Arts Council in 1967. He founded Poetry Wales in 1965 and edited the magazine for eight years. A poet and editor of numerous books, he has become a university lecturer and a literary agent since retiring from the Arts Council. He is the editor of the Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales (1986) and A Rhondda Anthology (1993), and translator of Gwynfor Evans' autobiography (1996).

Stitt, André

André Stitt is Head of Time Based Art at UWIC and one of the foremost practitioners of performance art in the UK. His gallery in Cardiff, Trace, hosts a regular programme focussing on contemporary fine art performance, video, installation and interactive, interdisciplinary activity.

Street, Sean

Sean Street is a writer and broadcaster. He is the author of six collections of poetry and has had four plays performed in the last decade, including Honest John (1993) which celebrates the life of the poet John Clare. Sean Street has written books on Hampshire, Dorset, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and rural writing. He has produced radio programmes on W.H. Hudson, A.G. Street, Hopkins' 'The Wreck of the Deutschland' (also the subject of a book), historic farms and 'Lost Villages'. He is a regular contributor to arts and history programmes on BBC Radio 2 and 4, where his feature on Keith Douglas marked the 50th anniversary of the death of the poet in 1944.

Thomas, Ceri