Shane Crees is a poet-philosopher, raised in the small village of Llanrhystud, Ceredigion in West Wales. He has graduated from the universities of Aberystwyth and Lampeter and has worked as an editor/proof reader as well as having briefly taught philosophy at the Old College. He has published several poems in magazines including Poetry Monthly and The Red Poets' Society, and given readings in venues including the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea. He lives in Aberystwyth.