Siôn Tomos Owen is a bilingual writer, poet, artist and presenter from Treorci in Rhondda Fawr. He works as a creative freelance artist – drawing, painting murals and running creative workshops. He was one of the presenters of the television programmes Cynefin and Pobol y Rhondda, and was a comedy contributor to Y Tŷ Rygbi, Jonathan and Academi Gomedi. His first collection of poetry, Pethau Sy’n Digwydd (Barddas) was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2025, and his most recent publication is a novel for children, Gerwyn Gwrthod a’r Llyfr Does Neb yn Cael ei Darllen (Atebol 2025). He has written and illustrated several books for children and Welsh learners, and his poetry and stories are on the new curriculum for GCSE Welsh and Welsh as a second language.
Siôn said the following about his tenure: “As Bardd Plant Cymru I want to ease out the creativity that every child has within them, to create poems, stories or illustrations – the funny and the profound – and to use these to foster the love of reading which grabbed me when I was the same age.”