Dilys has lived in a dozen countries across three continents. Her poetry and short fiction appear in Chestnut Review, Mslexia, New Flash Fiction Review, Shooter, X-R-A-Y, and elsewhere. Rust & Moth nominated her for a 2026 Pushcart Prize. In her spare time, Dilys hosts workshops for Strange Birds Migratory Writing Collective and is a poetry reader for Chestnut Review. A graduate of the Faber Academy, she is currently working on her first novel.
Selected work
a museum of waxwings
Chestnut Review, 2025
Self-Portrait of Someone Else
New Flash Fiction Review, 2025
mammogram
Black Nore Review, 2024
Elegy
Rust and Moth, 2024
Fairy tale ending
Rust and Moth, 2021
monsters in the shape of people
Wild Roof Journal, 2022
as you light up
Shooter Literary Magazine, 2024
still lives
Passionfruit Review, 2024
Channel Seascape
Passionfruit Review, 2024
a ghazal for Doggerland
Ink Sweat & Tears, 2024
"wreckage" and "Campfire"
Eunoia Review, 2023
Corona Seasons: haiku and senryu sequence (since 2020)
San Antonio Review, 2021
