"I'm Cardiff born and I'm Cardiff bred, And when I die I'll be Cardiff dead" - Frank Hennessy. Life in the Welsh capital means many things to many people. Frank Hennessy loves it, but others aren't so sure... Editor Meic Stephens was born at Treforest, near Pontypridd, in 1938. Educated at University College, Aberystwyth, he was a French teacher and journalist before becoming Literature Director of the Welsh Arts Council in 1967. He founded Poetry Wales in 1965 and edited the magazine for eight years. A poet and editor of numerous books, he has become a university lecturer and a literary agent since retiring from the Arts Council. He is the editor of the Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales (1986) and A Rhondda Anthology (1993), and translator of Gwynfor Evans' autobiography (1996).
