Manon Ceridwen JamesManon Ceridwen James has been published in a variety of magazines including Poetry Wales, Poetry Scotland, Envoi and Under the Radar. A former parish priest, she was one of the first women to be ordained in the Church in Wales. She is Dean (for Initil Ministerial Training) at the St Padarn’s Institute, Cardiff, Canon Theologian at Newport Cathedral, and is poetry editor of Practical Theology. She gained a PhD researching Welsh women’s identity in 2015 from the University of Birmingham and published her book Women, Identity and Religion in Wales: Theology, Story, Poetry with the University of Wales Press in 2018. She teaches Theology and Popular Culture for the St Padarn’s Institute, is an amateur stand-up comedian and a proud member of the Red Wall, the Wales / Cymru’s football team’s fans. Her daughters, Miriam and Catrin, have now left home and she lives in Abergele with her husband, Dylan. Read More Read Less