Elaine Canning

Originally from Belfast, Elaine Canning is a writer, editor and public engagement specialist living in Swansea, South Wales. She holds an MA and PhD in Hispanic Studies from Queen's University, Belfast and an MA in Creative Writing from Swansea University. She is currently Head of Special Projects at Swansea University, which include the Rhys Davies National Short Story Competition, as well as Executive Officer of the Dylan Thomas Prize.

She has authored a monograph and papers on Spanish Golden-Age drama and her short stories have appeared in Nation.Cymru and The Lonely Crowd. Editor of Take a Bite: The Rhys Davies Short Story Award Anthology (Parthian, 2021) and New World, New Beginnings: Resilience and Connectivity through Poetry (Parthian 2021), she is also editor of Maggie O'Farrell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (forthcoming, Bloomsbury). The Sandstone City is her debut novel.