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.

He won the National Eisteddfod Prose Medal in 2026 with his third novel, Ffrwyth (Gwasg y Bwthyn). 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 his second novel, Y Cylch (Gwasg y Bwthyn,2024) 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 was published by Y Lolfa: Llanddafad.

His doctoral research was published by the University of Wales Press in 2022 as ‘Mae’r Beibl o’n tu’: Ymatebion crefyddol y Cymry yn America i gaethwasiaeth (1838-1868). An English adaptation is due to be published in the coming months.

He has won awards for his creative work including the National Eisteddfod Prose Medal in 2026 for his novel Ffrwyth and the Drama Medal in 2019 and 2021. In 2017 he received a 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.

In 2023 he was selected as the Welsh participant in LAF's Counterpoint project