Professor Jane Aaron – Honorary Secretary
Professor Aaron is a Welsh educator, literary researcher and writer. Until her retirement in December 2013, she was Professor of English at the University of Glamorgan in south Wales. She then became an associate member of the Centre for the Study of Media and Culture...Professor M. Wynn Thomas – Trustee
M. Wynn Thomas, longtime Chair of the Books Council, is Professor of English and holder of the Emyr Humphreys Chair in Welsh Writing in English at Swansea University, and is the former Director and founder of CREW. He is a specialist in American poetry and in the two...Board of Trustees
Linda Tomos – Chair Linda Tomos has been a chartered librarian since 1975 and was the National Librarian for Wales from 2015–2019, leading the strategy of the National Library in Aberystwyth. Rona Aldrich – Vice-Chair Originally from Anglesey, Rona Aldrich has lived...
Professor M. Wynn Thomas
Professor Thomas holds the Emyr Humphreys Chair of Welsh Writing in English at Swansea University, and is the former Director and founder of CREW.
He is a specialist in American poetry and in the two literatures of modern Wales. He has held visiting professorships at Harvard and at Tubingen, was Chairman of the Welsh Arts Council’s Literature Committee for five years and Chairman of the University of Wales Press, and acted as Chairman of the Welsh Academy of writers, Yr Academi Gymreig, becoming a Fellow of the Academy in 2000.
He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1995, received the highest honour of the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 2000 and was made an Honorary Fellow of the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol in 2012. He is a founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and its former Vice-President.
