Sian Melangell Dafydd is an author, poet and co-editor of the Welsh language literature magazine
Taliesin. She now divides her time between Wales and Paris, where she is researching a second novel and works as a communication coach.
Y Trydydd Peth ('The Third Thing') is her first novel and won her the 2009 National Eisteddfod Literature Medal. A bilingual collaborative book with poet Damian Walford Davies and artist Paul White (
Ancestral Houses / Tai Mawredd a Mieri) will be published in December 2011.