Hilary Llewellyn-Williams has written poetry most of her life; her first collection, The Tree Calendar (1987), won the Welsh Arts Council Young Writer Prize. She subsequently published five collections, the most recent being Greenland (2003). After an interval of several years she returned to writing poetry. Her themes range from our relationship with the natural world, myth and folklore, human drama, domestic life, spirituality and the primacy of physical place. She lives in Abergavenny.