Tracey Rhys is a writer, editor and artist from Bridgend. She received a Literature Wales New Writer Award for her debut poetry collection, Teaching a Bird to Sing (Green Bottle Press, 2016), which was longlisted for the Michael Marks Award in 2017. Her poetry has appeared extensively in journals such as Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review, Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, The Lonely Crowd and Ink, Sweat & Tears. Anthology contributions include Poems from the Borders (Seren), Bloody Amazing! (Dragon-Yaffle) A470: Poems for the Road (Arachne) Gwrthryfel/Uprising (Culture Matters) and Land of Change (Culture Matters). Her writing has featured in a public exhibition at the Senedd for Autism Awareness month, and in professional theatre as performance monologues for Winterlight Theatre. Tracey’s fiction can be found in the anthology Cast a Long Shadow from Honno (2022). In 2020, Tracey won the Poetry Archive’s ‘WordView Now’ competition.
