Books By Rebecca F John, Elaine Canning - Author

Originally from Belfast, Elaine Canning is a festival and literary prize director, writer and editor living in Swansea, south Wales. She is currently Director of Swansea University' s Cultural Institute and the Dylan Thomas Prize. As well as having written a monograph and papers on Spanish Golden-Age drama, she has published several short stories. Her debut novel, The Sandstone City, published with Aderyn Press in November 2022. She is also editor of Maggie O' Farrell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2024). In 2023, she was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales for leadership in public engagement and understanding