Casia is passionate about writing, reading, and the written word in all its forms. She studied English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University where she was tutored and inspired by poets such as Tiffany Atkinson and Damian Walford Davies. Casia was appointed Bardd Plant Cymru (Children’s Poet Laureate) 2017-19, and spent two years travelling across Wales delivering poetry workshops to children as well as writing commissioned poems to celebrate notable anniversaries, events and organisations. She has adapted two of Michael Morpurgo’s novels into Welsh – Ceffyl Rhyfel (War Horse) and Y Llew Pilipala (The Butterfly Lion), both published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch. She has also published original work in Welsh, including a novel for teenagers called Sgrech y Môr (Gwasg Y Lolfa, 2014), two short stories – ‘Arthur yn Achub y Byd’ and ‘Pedrig y Pysgodyn Pengaled’ (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2015) – and one short story in the collection Straeon Tic Toc (Gwasg Gomer, 2016). Casia has also published poems for children in two collections, Clywch Ni’n Rhuo Nawr (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2017) and Pawen Lawen (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch 2018), and later this year will publish Eliffant yn Eistedd ar Enfys; Gwirion ar Farddoni (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch), a Poetry guidebook full of activities and advice to get children writing poetry in school or at home.
