Ness Owen is a poet and lecturer who lives on Ynys Mon. Her poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies including in Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, Mslexia, Red Poets, Poetry Wales, The Interpreter’s House, Culture Matters, Ink, Sweat & Tears, The Cardiff Review, The Atlanta Review, Mother’s Milk Books, Seventh Quarry Journal and Black Bough Poetry.
Her first collection Mamiaith (Mother Tongue) was published by Arachne Press in 2019 and her second collection Moon Jellyfish Can Barely swim was published by Parthian in 2023.
Her poem ‘And then the geese turned up’ was the winner of Greenpeace’s Poem for the Planet 2022. Her poems have been translated into German, Dutch and Romanian. Her short plays have been staged in various venues throughout Wales. She also co-edited the bilingual anthology A470 – Cerddi’r Ffordd/Poems for the Road.
