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 Siân Melangell Dafydd 

Siân Melangell Dafydd is a Welsh novelist, poet and translator, born on 28th April, 1977. In 2009, she won the National Eisteddfod Literature Medal for her first novel, Y Trydydd Peth(The Third Thing, Gomer, 2009). For six years she worked as the co-editor of literary review Taliesin and Y Neuadd. Since 2001, Siân has practiced yoga in order to access greater creativity, directing workshops about yoga and writing all across Europe. She teaches Creative Writing at the American University of Paris, and is currently making a Masters in Transnational Creative Writing for Bath Spa University.