About some of our writers & contributors this month · 21 February 05 · Issue 1

DR. DAVID STEPHENSON

Dr. Stephenson is an authority on Welsh Medieval History. He has a B.A., an M.A. and a Doctorate from Oxford University and he is a former Bowrie Senior Research Fellow from Wadham College, Oxford. He was Principal of Cambridge Seminars for 23 years. He is now Honorary Research Fellow in Welsh History at the University of Wales Bangor. He has had books published by Cambridge University, the University of Wales, Longmans etc. and articles in all leading Welsh history journals. He now lives in Llanidloes with his partner Jan, and we are very privileged to have him the team of PenCambria.

JONATHAN SLEIGH

An ex-civil servant from London and Birmingham, Jonathan came to Wales 30 years ago to get away from the rat race into the countryside. He is well-known in Mid-Wales for his lectures to local groups on modern history for the WEA, now called the Department of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church of Wales in 1984 and is a part-time minister at the chapel at Sychnant, near Pant-y-dwr. As well as writing for the civil service in his erstwhile career, he has also written a number of short stories.

KEITH PARKER

Keith is a native of Kington and a graduate of Birmingham and London Universities. He lives in Presteigne where he was formerly the deputy head of John Beddoes School. For many years he has lectured on local history for the Extra-mural Department of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and for the Workers Educational Association. His popularly acclaimed “A History of Presteigne” was published in 1997 by Logaston Press. His main interest is in the history of local government and he currently gives lectures once a year at the Judge’s Lodgings in Presteigne as a fund-raising exercise for this building for the restoration and promotion of which he has provided active support for several years.

TYLER KEEVIL

Tyler was raised in Vancouver, Canada. He first came to the UK in 1999 to study English at Lancaster University. Since graduation, he has spent his time writing and travelling. This past summer he was placed first in the Frome Festival Story Competition and was fortunate enough to receive a Writer of the Year Award from Writers Inc. of London. His fiction has appeared in a variety of magazines, including Thirteen, Scribble and Countryside Tales. He lives currently in Llanidloes, and hopes to attend Aberystwyth’s Creative Writing MA programme in the near future.

MATT MAUS

Maus, Matt, a practising lycanthrope, is approaching (from the wrong side) the latter stages of his early middle age. Somewhat earlier in his life before this, he graduated from the University of Bolton with a third class honours degree in post-feminist misogyny, but prior to this he spent his childhood in Abject Misery, an understated hamlet in Buckinghamshire, after being born to two parents of Autro-Hungarian rootage. His hobbies include addition, freshwater drinking and collecting letters,. He now has a complete set and has used all twenty six of them in his story in PenCambria No. !