MARK REES is the arts writer for Wales' largest selling newspaper, the South Wales Evening Post, and also writes for several leading magazines and weekly titles, including Swansea Life. Outside of print, he is a member of the Wales Theatre Awards judging panel, hosts a monthly arts show on local radio, has presented three documentaries on Welsh culture and, as a fluent Welsh language speaker, plays an active role at the National Eisteddfod.
His two previous books, The Little Book of Welsh Culture (2016) and Ghosts of Wales: Accounts from the Victorian Archives (2017), were both published by The History Press.
He lives in Port Talbot.