Miriam Elin Sautin was brought up within a multilingual family in Llanbedrog, Pen Llyn. She studied French and Spanish at the University of Durham before spending two years teaching English at the universities of Limoges and Lyon. She has also gained an MA in Environmental Humanities from the University of Bristol. She won the Drama Medal in the 2020-21 Urdd National Eisteddfod and the Emyr Feddyg Scholarship in the 2023 National Eisteddfod. 

Writinng in Welsh with an ear tuned to elsewhere. She spent a summer volunteering on an almond farm in Spain and later lived in western Andalucía, and those places stayed vivid enough to become her first novel.  La Salamandra (Gwasg y Bwthyn, 2026)