Owen Sheers is an award-winning poet, author and playwright. Twice-winner of Welsh Book of the Year he was the recipient of the 2016 St Davids Award for Culture and the 2018 Wilfred Owen Poetry Award. His poetry publications include Skirrid Hill and Pink Mist, named by The Guardian as a top-ten play of the year. His BAFTA-nominated BBC film-poem The Green Hollow also won three BAFTA Cymru awards, including for Best Writer. To Provide All People, his most recent film-poem, was broadcast to mark the 70th anniversary of the NHS. The author of two novels, Resistance and I Saw A Man, his latest TV drama, The Trick, about the 2009 ‘Climategate events’ was nominated for a BAFTA Cymru best film award. Owen’s theatrical work includes The Two Worlds of Charlie F., winner of the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, Mametz, and National Theatre Wales’s The Passion. His arts documentaries include the BBC 4 series A Poet’s Guide to Britain and The Greatest Poem of WWI: David Jones and In Parenthesis. A former NYPL Cullman Fellow, he is Cennad of WalesPENCymru, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Professor in Creative Writing at Swansea University and co-founder of Black Mountains College, a new college focused on systems change and sustainable futures. He lives with his two daughters in Wales.