I am never quite sure whether to send a short biography out when contacting a magazine for the first time.

Some editors seem to want them, others - rightly I think - say that it should be your writing that counts, and that such notes are superfluous. Anyway, here's the one that I send out - sometimes.

Writer of fiction, essays, articles, reviews and poetry.

Born London, of Welsh family. Lived in Wales since 1972. Formerly a local government officer.

Numerous magazine publications in UK, USA, Eire, Romania, Argentina, Canada, South Africa and Australia.

Examples: poetry in Orbis ,Other Poetry, Outposts, Poetry Salzburg Review, Gaelach Lan, Staple; short fiction in Westwords, Odyssey, Panurge; non-fiction including a series of twenty essays on literary biography published in Writers' Monthly; essays in the Southern African Review of Books; regular columns in over 50 consecutive issues of Cambrensis magazine; reviewer for Stride and Roundyhouse; contributor to Pembrokeshire Life, The H.G. Wells Newsletter, Country Quest and Cambria.

Web publications can be found on The Catalyzer Journal , Expose'd; the web site of The Poetry Library, Stride, and elsewhere.

Numerous 'commercial' articles, sometimes using the noms-de-plume Joseph Edmunds or Hannah Rae Evans. Many works re-published in Romania, UK correspondent for Antares (Romania) and Wales Correspondent for La Carta de Oliver (Argentina), and translations from the Romanian placed in UK and USA.

Full-length publications:
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Family Walks Around Swansea (Scarthin, 1993)
The Time Traveller [Prose, edited with Dr. Petru Iamandi] (Porto Franco, 1997)
Nietzsche's Children [Poetry] (Geneze, 1998)
Living Words [Essays on literary biography] (Porto Franco, 1998)
Passing Moments [Short stories, with others] (KT Publications, 2001)
The Lake, [Eighteen short stories] (KT Publications, 2006)
Checkpoint, [A collection of speculative fiction] (The European Institute, 2007)