Gwen Davies (editor)


Gwen Davies is a Welsh editor and translator. She currently edits the New Welsh Review.

Background

Davies, the youngest of four children in a Welsh-speaking family, was raised in Otley, West Yorkshire, England. Her parents were linguists, her father a published Welsh-language poet.
She lives in Aberystwyth with her husband, son and daughter.

Career

Davies' began her first job in 1985 as a writer/editorial assistant on Planet magazine. She later managed the Welsh-language children's publisher, Cymdeithas Lyfrau Ceredigion, before becoming Literature Officer of the Arts Council of Wales in 1995.
Davies was Parthian Books' original fiction editor, working on titles such as Rachel Trezise's Fresh Apples, which won the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2006. Davies was also editor of Alcemi Books, the literary fiction imprint of Y Lolfa.
In 2011, Gwen Davies took over as the editor of the New Welsh Review, altering the format and appearance of the magazine and including in it regular illustrations by the freelance designer Jamie Hamley.