I am pictured above (right) with independence activist, Robert Smith, at the march for Welsh independence in Merthyr Tudful, 7th September 2019. Having been inspired in my teens by the history of cultured passive resistance to cultural persecution described by Gwynfor Evans in his history of Wales, Land of My Fathers, and by his vision of a democratic Wales within a European union, I have sought to help rebuild the political and cultural independence of Wales for the whole of my adult life. I have worked on conservation projects in Scotland, Estonia, Iceland and Costa Rica, and am also rather fond of cats.
I am proud to have been published by Albawtaka, Gwasg y Bwthyn, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, Culture Matters, Multilingual Matters, the North Wales Mental Health Research Project and Cockatrice Books, in The Swansea Review, New Welsh Review, New Writing, Tears in the Fence and The Interpreter’s House, and alongside many of the leading writers of Wales and beyond: among them, Glenda Beagan, Carys Bray, Karl Francis, Roger Granelli, Tristan Hughes, Nigel Jarrett, Mike Jenkins, Jim Perrin, Simon Thirsk, Rachel Trezise, Gee Williams, and others. I have worked on interdisciplinary projects with Dr Alistair Sims and Prof. Raimund Karl as a visiting writer at the Meillionydd Bronze Age dig, and with Prof. David Healy as Artistic Coordinator of the North Wales Mental Health Research Project. I have translated fiction by Angharad Tomos and Manon Steffan Ros, and have myself been translated by Hala Salah Eldin Hussein. I hold a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from Portsmouth University, and am a member of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars in recognition of the quality of my academic work, and of the Welsh Academy in acknowledgement of my contributions to Welsh writing.
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Dr Sarah Gallup is a clinical psychologist at the California Department of State Hospitals. She also runs a podcast exploring the history of mental health care and the stories of people who lived or worked Behind the Walls of the World’s Psychiatric Hospitals. In six recent episodes she reads from Dangerous Asylums...
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‘freely and fiercely inventive short stories… supercharged with ideas.’
Jon Gower, Nation Cymru
‘heaving with loss, regret and familial bonds.’
Annexe Magazine
‘sketched with a depth and sureness of touch which makes them memorable and haunting.’
Caroline Clark, gwales.com
‘dark, complex, pensively eloquent’
Sophie Baggott, New Welsh Review
Translated by T. Gwynn Jones, with an introduction by Rob Mimpriss.
‘Lucid, skilful, and above all, of enormous timely significance.’
Jim Perrin
‘In this exemplary collaboration between medical science and imagination, lives preserved in official records, in the language and diagnoses of their times, are restored not just to light, but to humanity and equality. This anthology is a resurrection.’
Philip Gross
‘An invaluable translation.’
Angharad Price
Translated by Rob Mimpriss, with an introduction by E. Morgan Humphreys