Merryn Williams read English at New Hall, Cambridge and obtained a doctorate for her work on Thomas Hardy. She is the author of a number of critical prose works. Formerly a lecturer at the Open University, she is now editor of The Interpreter’s House magazine. The author of three volumes of poetry, she won the Second Light Network Poetry Competition 2003.
Translator of Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca, Merryn is also editor of the anthology In The Spirit of Wilfred Owen and the recent poetry anthology entitled The Georgians, 1901-1931 (editor). She has also published studies of Thomas Hardy and a biography of the Victorian Scottish novelist Margaret Oliphant. Her title The First Wife’s Tale was on the Wales Book of the Year 2007 Long List. Merryn lives in Oxford.