Made in Roath Blog: The skinny on me: Rebecca

Hello again!

I briefly hand-waved at you guys in the last post, but as promised here’s a proper introduction and a few personal titbits, to kick things off in the proper cordial fashion.

Full name’s Rebecca Roy. My friends however, uniformly refer to me as ‘Roy’, as if we’re all boarders at a 1930s prep school. (Sorry Mum and Dad, but I went to reception with four other Rebeccas - a regrettable precedent for my adult life - so you get what you deserve for your slightly too zeitgeisty naming.)

I write poetry. You may have seen me performing at this year’s Made in Spring, or perhaps manically scribbling away at the Poetry Takeaway stall.* I probably spend more time reading, than I do writing, and never have anything less than 6 books on the go. I am both a massive bibliophile, and a bit of book bigamist. A bibliamist?

I’m fresh off the Creative Writing MA at Cardiff University, and a recent expat of Roath. I only fled as far as Bristol, which happily lets me return to Cardiff as much as I like. This proves particularly handy in my duties as intern to the lovely Christina Thatcher – who many of you know as the literary events organiser for Made in Roath!

I’ll be running the blog this year, so you can expect to see many more of these posts. But don’t start fretting yet, I won’t be alone! Watch this space for personal features from the rest of the Made in Roath blog team (gang? motley crew? what’d you guys reckon?) who’ll be posting theirs over the course of this week.

Look forward to it – they’re a charming bunch.

R-

*In the company of the lovely and talented Uschi, who has a made a welcome last-minute addition to our blogging strike-team! Check us out in action: