List Of Writers

JONES, JOHN SAM

John Sam Jones’s family have lived on the banks of the Mawddach for more than two hundred years. A fluent Welsh speaker who writes only in English, John was educated at Ysgol Ardudwy in Harlech, the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. After periods of work as a teacher, a hospital and prison chaplain and a sexual health worker, John currently works as a Schools Advisor in Denbighshire. He lives in an old farmhouse in Llandecwyn with his Civil Partner and two sheepdogs.

Parthian Books have published two collections of John’s short stories: Welsh Boys Too (2000), which won an Honour Book Award from the American Library Association in 2002, and Fishboys of Vernazza (2003), which was long listed for Welsh book of the year. The Gay Men’s Press published John’s first novel, With Angels and Furies, in 2005. John is a member of Academi.

Selected Publications:
Welsh Boys Too (Parthian, 2000)
Fishboys of Vernazza (Parthian, 2003)
With Angels and Furies (The Gay Men’s Press, 2005)
Crawling Through Thorns (Parthian, 2008)