About
Rosalind Hudis is a poet, editor, and creative writing tutor, living near Tregaron in West Wales. She has been writing full-time since 2009 when she undertook an MA in Creative and Script Writing at University of Wales Trinity St Davids. This was followed by a PhD in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University ( 2014 – 2017). Her poems and reviews have been widely published in journals and magazines, including Agenda, Dead Ink, Envoi, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Manhattan Review, Magma, New Welsh Review, Planet Magazine, Poetry London, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry Wales, Stand Magazine, The Interpreter’s House, The Lampeter Review, The Lonely Crowd, Wales Arts Review . She is the author of two poetry collections, a pamphlet, Terra Ignota ( Rack Press 2013 ) and Tilt ( Cinnamon Press 2014 ) which was written with the help of a New Writers Bursary from Literature Wales Academi ( 2013 ).
Poetry from Tilt was highly commended in the 2015 Forward Prizes for Poetry. The same year, Rosalind was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Manhattan Review. In 2017 she became a Hawthornden Fellow. She has worked as a visiting lecturer at University of Wales Trinity St David’s and also been employed there to provide writing surgeries for students on the degree prorammes in creative writing. She has mentored for Cinnamon Press, and also offers private mentoring to poets.
Rosalind has won a variety of prizes and commendations for her work, including a commendation the National Poetry Competition ( 2011 ), highly commended in 2012 Poetry London Competition, third prize in the 2013 Magma Poetry Competition, runner up in the 2014 and 201 Aesthetica Creative Writng Competition, runner up in the 2014 Dylan Thomas International Poetry Prize, highly commended and also second prize in the 2014 Cinnamon Press Single Poem Competition, and first prize in the 2015 Cinnamon Press Single Poem Competition.