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NASH, LYNDA

Email: nashlynda@googlemail.com

Lynda was born and raised in Bedwas. After moving eighteen times in as many years she now lives in Trethomas with her husband, sons and, and two cats. She has a BA honours in Creative and Professional Writing and teaches Creative Writing and English in the community. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in various magazines and her poem 'Einstein’s Theory' won The Aber Valley Arts and Literature Festival poetry competition 2007.

Lynda’s play 'Ashes', co-written with Daniel Curtis, is based on her poetry. Her first novel Lily Strand is a darkly humorous tale set in Cardiff.

Reviews:
With respect to Ashes of a Valleys Childhood (Mulfran Press, 2009)

"…Snapshots of a valley’s past, but not the wistful, sepia-tinted kind. Celandines jostle cockroaches, blackberry-picking is blighted by an unloving parent, the iconic tin bath doubles as a toilet on winter nights. The childhood portrayed in these little vignettes is neither idyllic nor idealised, but it is alive and convincing…"
Sheenagh Pugh

"...A mixture of innocent questioning and the maturity of acceptance are conveyed. Yet the acceptance never means that a peculiar situation, an adult’s unexpected and unexplained reaction, is not thought about and does not continue to be examined.”
Barrie Llewelyn


Selected Publications:
Ashes of a Valleys Childhood (Mulfran Press, 2009)

Ashes of a Valleys Childhood (Mulfran Press, 2009)

This first collection of poems by Lynda Nash is selected from a broader body of work to focus on narratives that individually and collectively illuminate what it was like to grow up in the South Wales valleys in the 1960s and '70s. The stories are grounded in the lived experience of the poet and other children growing up in this particular time and place.


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