Mab Jones
Mab Jones is a "unique talent" (The Times) who has read her work all over the UK, in the US, France, Ireland and Japan. She is the winner of many awards and accolades, including the John Tripp Spoken Poetry Audience Award, the Word Factory Neil Gaiman Short Story competition, the Wolverhampton Literature Festival Poetry Prize, the Aurora Poetry Prize, the Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, and the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize, amongst others.
Mab has made and presented several BBC radio programmes with a poetic theme, and has also appeared on BBC television. She has written for the New York Times, was coordinator of International Dylan Thomas Day, and was, for a time, the social media manager for world famous writer Wilbur Smith. As a poet, she is the author of three published collections and three pamphlets. She additionally runs two small presses, and has been publishing since she was a teenager.
Bog Witch is Mab’s first book of prose, inspired by her ongoing residency in Cardiff Wetlands and her associated podcast which encompasses all the wetlands of Wales. This work was also supported by a Royal Society of Literature ‘Literature Matters’ Award. As well as following an individual and often eclectic spiritual path, she also enjoys comedy, crochet, crafts, costume jewellery, colour, and cooking. Mab hails from Wales.
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