About Janet

She speaks Welsh, having learnt as an adult, and (rusty) French and German. Her PhD was a study of the stories about language she collected with Welsh/English bilingual children – a research passion. As an academic Janet has worked on the craft of words for many years, alongside her ongoing personal enjoyment in creative writing. ‘Retirement’ has allowed more opportunity to write and publish poetry and fiction.

In 2022 she was runner-up in the erbacce-prize for poetry from an international field of over 15,000 submissions. Her first poetry collection is ‘Greenscapes . . . and other poems’.