Grahame Davies is a Welsh poet, novelist, editor and literary critic, who has won numerous prizes, including the Wales Book of the Year Award.

He is the author of 15 books in Welsh and English, including The Chosen People, a study of the relationship of the Welsh and Jewish peoples, a novel, Everything Must Change, about the French philosopher Simone Weil, and the popular work of psychogeography, Real Wrexham.

A native of Wrexham, now based in Cardiff, he has a degree in English from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, and a PhD from Cardiff University, where he is an honorary fellow in the department of religious studies.

He has been awarded an honorary D.Litt from Anglia Ruskin University, and is a fellow of Goodenough College, London. He travels internationally as a reader and lecturer. His poetry has been translated into many languages. 

His work for Karl Jenkins has included numerous commissions, including contributions, in Welsh, English and other languages, to albums such as Gloria (2010); O Fortuna  (2009); Stabat Mater(2008); This Land of Ours(2007) and Requiem (2005)