BA (Hons) English Literature and Creative Writing

MA in Creative Writing

Mari is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and is experienced in developing and delivering creative writing courses in poetry and short fiction. Her interests include women’s writing, Welsh writing in English and writing on motherhood.

Her debut poetry collection, Salacia, was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2019. Her second collection, Pearl and Bone, was voted Wales Arts Review’s Number 1 Poetry Choice of 2022.

Mari is a PhD candidate at Aberystwyth University, where she is writing a historic novel set in sixteenth-century Wales, exploring the relationship between accusations of witchcraft, the female body and reproduction. Mari lives on the west coast of Wales with her husband, their two sons, and their very adorable poochon.