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Anna Wigley was born in Cardiff in 1962 and has lived there, except for one year in London, ever since. Her parentage was a mixture of Welsh, English and Lithuanian. She studied English at Cardiff University and then stayed on to do a PhD on the novels of Iris Murdoch.<\/p>\n
While a postgraduate, she began submitting poems to magazines such as New Welsh Review <\/em><\/a>and Planet<\/em><\/a>, as well as reviewing books for those publications and for Poetry Wales<\/em><\/a>. She also wrote articles and in 2000 won The Guardian<\/em> essay prize for a piece on D. H. Lawrence<\/a>.<\/p>\n In 2001 she won the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, and in 2002 her first collection of poetry, The Bird Hospital<\/em>, was published by Gomer Press. In 2004 a first collection of short stories, Footprints<\/em><\/a>, came out; then in 2005 another book of poetry, D\u00fc<\/em>rer\u2019s Hare.<\/em> Her most recent collection is Waking in Winter <\/em>(2009). Anna also writes for children and has just self-published a book called The Salon of Eternal Youth <\/em><\/a>with Amazon. She has also brought out a second short story collection, Roses have Thorns<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Anna Wigley’s website<\/a><\/p>\n Read a poem by Anna Wigley here<\/a><\/p>\n Bibliography:<\/strong>
\nIn 2011 she was given an award by The Society of Authors<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nThe Bird Hospital<\/em> <\/a>(Gomer, 2002) ISBN 9781843230687
\nD\u00fcrer\u2019s Hare<\/em> <\/a>(Gomer, 2005) ISBN 9781843234982
\nWaking in Winter<\/em><\/a> (Gomer, 2009) ISBN 9781843239703<\/p>\n