Tesni is a neurodiverse Cardiff-born author living in North Wales. She has been writing stories since she was five years old and knew she wanted to work as a novelist from the age of six. Regularly engrossed in reading at the dinner table, she needed to be prised away from her latest novel each night so that her bedroom light could be switched off.
After working in professional development for over thirty years, during which time she wrote ten non-fiction books, Tesni now writes first world war fiction. Her well researched, historically accurate stories are set on the home front in Cymru. They focus on the courage and resilience of Welsh women and returning veterans, as well as the plight and heroism of soldiers at the front. The novels are her homage to the women and men of Cymru who endured so much during that war.
Her first novel Poppies Grow on Broken Ground is endorsed by Dafydd Iwan. Her second novel In Good Faith will be published on 11th November 2026. Firelight, At The Front and No Man’s Land follow, as sister novels.
Tesni talks engagingly about the home front in Cymru during WWI and the themes of her novels. She was the special guest on Roy Noble’s Remembrance Sunday show on BBC Radio Wales, has appeared in online readings and podcasts, and given a talk to the Meirionnydd WI during the book launch for Poppies.
Tesni can be contacted through her BlueSky account: @tesnibevan.bsky.social
