Richard Gwyn grew up in south Wales, and following several years in London spent most of the 1980s travelling on and around the Mediterranean, chronicled in his memoir The Vagabond’s Breakfast (Wales Book of the Year for nonfiction, 2012). His books include the novels The Colour of a Dog Running Away, Deep Hanging Out and The Blue Tent, and the poetry collections Walking on Bones, Being in Water, Sad Giraffe Café and Stowaway: A Levantine Adventure. Between 2011-2015 he travelled widely in Latin America, compiling and translating a landmark anthology, The Other Tiger: Recent Poetry from Latin America. His other translations include collections by the poets Joaquín O. Giannuzzi, Darío Jaramillo and Fabio Morábito. His memoir Ambassador of Nowhere appeared in 2024, and Some Miraculous Promised Land: In Search of James Dickson Innes in 2025.
He is the author of a Substack blog, Raids on the Underworld with Richard Gwyn, and his website can be found at richardgwyn.com.
