Grug Muse
Grug Muse is a poet, essayist, and editor.
Her second volume of poetry, merch y llyn, (Cyhoeddiadau’r Stamp, 2021), came first in the Welsh Book of the Year poetry category. She is also co-editor of Welsh (plural) (Repeater, 2022), a collection of essays that seeks to imagine a Wales that is distinct and inclusive.
She performs her work regularly, and has appeared in many literary festivals, locally and internationally, including the Berlin Poetry Festival (2021), the Thessalian Poetry Festival (2021), Hay Festival (2022) and Transpoesie in Brussels (2022). She was a Ulysses Shelter resident in 2020, and travelled to Croatia, Greece, and Serbia.
She is one of the founders and editors of Cyhoeddiadau’r Stamp, a small independent press publishing pamphlets and books with a focus on poetry and visual art. In 2021, she co-founded the poetry journal Ffosfforws with Iestyn Tyne.
Her work has been published by the Guardian, O’r Pedwar Gwynt, Barddas, Poetry Wales, The Letters Page, and others. She was a writer at work in the Hay Festival 2018-19 and won the Pen Cymru Her Gyfieithu translation prize in 2020.
She has just completed a PhD on Welsh travel literature about Latin America at Swansea University, funded by the AHRC CDT for Celtic Studies.
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Grug Muse is a poet, editor, performer and educator. She is one of the editors and founders of Y Stamp literary magazine, and is the author of Ar Ddisberod, published in 2017 with Barddas.
She is a 2020 Ulysses Shelter Resident, and holds an Authors Scholarship from Literature Wales for 2020.
Her work has appeared in O'r Pedwar Gwynt, Barddas, Poetry Wales, Panorama: the journal of intelligent travel, and other publications. She was a Hay writer at work 2018-19, and was the winner of the Chair at the Urdd National Eisteddfod in 2013, and the inter-collegiate chair in 2019.
She is currently working on a PhD on Welsh travel writing written about Latin America, funded by the AHRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Celtic Studies.