Nerys Williams now lives in Dublin but is originally from Pen-Y-Bont, Carmarthen. Her debut collection of poetry Sound Archive was published in 2011. Nerys is a native Welsh speaker and has worked as a Sound Librarian at BBC Wales, and is a recipient of a Fulbright Scholar's Award at UC Berkeley. A recent winner of the Ted McNulty Poetry Prize, she lectures in American Literature at University College, Dublin. She has published poems and critical essays widely, and is the author of A Guide to Contemporary Poetry as well as study of contemporary American poetry, Reading Error.