Šan Melangel Dafid, autor, pesnik i prevodilac, čiji je prvi objavljeni roman “Treća stvar”, osvojio prestižnu nagradu National Eisteddfod Literatura 2009. godine. Ona piše na velškom i na engleskom jeziku i često sarađuje sa umetnicima drugih disciplina. Britanski program za književno prevodilaštvo ju je izabrao da učestvuje u mentorskom programu 2013. godine. Poezija i proza joj se često objavljuju, na primer 2014. godine stvaralaštvo joj je uvršteno u najbolju britansku poeziju i u najbolju britansku kratku priču. Trenutno radi kao predavač kreativnog pisanja na Američkom univerzitetu u Parizu.
Ona je jedan od urednika na sajtu yneuadd.com, koji neguje nove pravce kao i u književnoj recenziji Taliesin. Interesuje je usaglašavanje reči i pokreta (ples, joga).
Uskoro će joj biti objavljeni drugi roman na velškom jeziku, zajednička zbirka pesama sa malezijskom pesnikinjom Anitom Tampi, kao i knjiga priča o jogi za decu.
Author, poet and translator, Siân Melangell Dafydd’s first published novel, Y Trydydd Peth (The Third Thing; Gomer, 2009) won her the coveted 2009 National Eisteddfod Literature Medal. She writes in both Welsh and English and often collaborates with artists of other disciplines (dancer Sioned Huws’ Aomori Project; book Ancestral Houses: the Lost Mansions of Wales/Tai Mawr a Mieri: Plastai Coll Cymru with poet Damian Walford Davies and artist Paul White [Gomer 2012]). In 2013, she was selected as one of the British Center for Literary Translation Mentorship Programme. She publishes her short-fiction and poetry widely, for example 2014’s Best British Poetry and Best British Short Story. She is currently working as a Creative Writing Lecturer at the American University of Paris.
She is the co-editor of yneuadd.com which nurtures new voices as well as the literary review, Taliesin – both in the Welsh language. The alchemy of collaboration interests her – translating between words and movement (dance, yoga) as well as between words.
Forthcoming are her second Welsh language novel, a collection of pair poems with Malayalam poet, Anitha Thampi and yoga storytelling books for children.