Gareth Evans-Jones is from the island of Anglesey in north Wales and is a lecturer in Philosophy and Religion at Bangor University, as well as a writer of prose, poetry and drama.

In 2018, he published his first novel, Eira Llwyd (Gwasg y Bwthyn), which follows the stories of three Jews during the Holocaust. Since then, he has published a volume of photographs and poetic literature, Cylchu Cymru (Y Lolfa), which was awarded the Creative Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award by Literature Wales in 2023. He has edited a volume of micro fiction, Can Curiad (Gwasg y Bwthyn), and this autumn, ready for Halloween, his second novel, Y Cylch (Gwasg y Bwthyn), will be published which follows the lives of a coven of witches in modern-day Bangor.

July 2023 saw the publication of the first anthology of LGBTQ+ literature in the Welsh language, Curiadau (Barddas), which Gareth edited, and in 2024, his first volume of short stories for children will be published by Y Lolfa: Llanddafad.

He has won awards for his creative work including the National Eisteddfod Drama Medal in 2019 and 2021, and the 2017 New Writer Scholarship from Literature Wales. He has also collaborated with various organisations and companies to create artistic work, including Frân Wen theatre company (2021/22) to script a show that travelled through Wales in spring 2022, Ynys Alys. He is collaborating with Indian artists on a trilingual digital production (Welsh, Ladakhi and English), which creates a dialogue between Welsh and Indian folk tales (Wales Arts Review and Meta Arts), and he is currently collaborating with Irish writers to develop a project on identities.

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He was selected as the Welsh participant in LAF's Counterpoint project