Morgan Owen is a poet and essayist from Merthyr Tudful, who writes in Welsh. In 2019, he won the Michael Marks Award for Poetry in a Celtic Language for his pamphlet moroedd/dŵr (Cyhoeddiadau’r Stamp, 2019). In 2020, Morgan was awarded a Literature Wales Writer’s Bursary to develop a collection of essays centred on Merthyr. He is currently concentrating on poetry that aims to make sense of the pandemic experience, and the uncertain post-pandemic world.

Morgan has a poem in A470 Poems for the Road/ Cerddi’r Ffordd