Hi. My name is Dilys, and I’m a bilingual British and Belgian writer and editor writing in English.

As a third-culture kid and the child and grandchild of immigrants, I seem to have inherited a strong case of wanderlust. I grew up in Belgium and Saudi Arabia, studied in France, and have since lived in Germany, Jordan, the UK, and the Netherlands. I currently live in the Dutch coastal town of Haarlem with my husband and our two cats.

Like so many others, I rediscovered writing during the Covid pandemic. Up until that point, I had written sporadically, at night and on weekends, only sharing my work with a few close friends. Since 2021, my poems, short stories, book reviews and interviews have appeared, or are forthcoming, in journals and anthologies, including Beyond Words, Black Nore Review, Eunoia Review, Ink Sweat & Tears, Prometheus Dreaming, Passengers Journal, Rust and Moth, San Antonio Review, Shooter Literary, The Passionfruit Review, Treehouse Literary Review, Wild Roof Journal, and Willows Wept Review. In 2024, Rust + Moth nominated my poem, “Elegy,” for the Pushcart Prize.

My poetry pamphlet/chapbook, Breakwater, which intertwines eco-poetry with an exploration of female infertility, was longlisted for Mslexia’s Poetry Pamphlet Competition in 2023.

At any given time, I’ll have a handful of different writing projects on the go; multitasking somehow keeps writer’s block at bay. I am currently assembling a full poetry collection, editing a collection of interconnected short stories, and researching a historical mystery novel about an art forger active during the Dutch Golden Age. I have also just been accepted to Faber Academy’s flagship writing course, Writing a Novel, during which I will hopefully finish drafting a literary novel with a strong dose of supernatural horror set in the world of competitive freediving,

I am also an assistant poetry editor at Passengers Journal and help organise and host feedback groups for Strange Birds Migratory Writing Collective.