Editor Daniel Westover is Professor of English and Chair of Literature and Language at East Tennessee State University in the USA, as well as a literary critic, biographer and poet, whose poetry has appeared widely in important American journals and several anthologies. He is the author of R.S. Thomas: A Stylistic Biography (University of Wales Press, 2011), one of the central texts of R S Thomas scholarship. He also contributed poetry to Imagined Greetings: Poetic Engagements with R. S. Thomas (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2013), and is the editor of a new book of scholarly essays, New Approaches to R. S. Thomas (University of Wales Press, 2026).