Deryn Rees-Jones

Deryn Rees-Jones (born 1968) is an Anglo-Welsh poet, who lives and works in Liverpool. Although Rees-Jones has spent much of her life in Liverpool, she spent much of her childhood in the family home of Eglwys-bach in North Wales. She considers herself a Welsh writer.

Rees-Jones did doctoral research on women poets at Birkbeck College, and is now a professor of Poetry at Liverpool University. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 1993, and an Arts Council of England Writer's Award in 1996.