Jonathan Edwards’s first collection of poems, My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren, 2014), received the Costa Poetry Award and the Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice Award. It was shortlisted for the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. His second collection, Gen (Seren, 2018), also a receipient of the Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice Award, was shortlisted for the Gladstone’s Library Writer-in-Residence programme. His work was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2019 and has received prizes in a range of competitions, including the Ledbury Festival International Poetry Competition, the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition and the Cardiff International Poetry Competition. His poems have appeared in The Guardian, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review, Planet and The North. Jonathan has read his poems on BBC radio and television and at festivals around the world, recorded them for the Poetry Archive, and led workshops in schools, universities and prisons. He lives in Crosskeys, South Wales.
