Cynan Jones is an acclaimed fiction writer from the west coast of Wales. His work has appeared in over twenty countries, and in journals and magazines including Granta, Freeman’s and the New Yorker. He has also written a screenplay for the hit crime drama Hinterland, a collection of tales for children, and a number of stories for BBC Radio. He has been longlisted and shortlisted for numerous awards, and won, among other prizes, the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize, a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Award, and the BBC National Short Story Award.
Cynan has worked extensively as a tutor with the Arvon Foundation and Literature Wales and designed and presents Curtis Brown Creative’s Writing Short Stories course. In 2019, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and for a number of years was the RLF Writing Fellow at Aberystwyth University.
