Rhiannon Lewis is an award-winning Welsh writer. Her debut novel, My Beautiful Imperial, was listed by the Walter Scott Prize Academy as one of its 20 recommended historical novels in 2018: https://www.walterscottprize.co.uk/walter-scott-prize-academy-announces-recommended-list/. The Significance of Swans was runner-up in the dystopian novella category of the New Welsh Writing Awards in 2019. Her successes in short story competitions include: the Bristol Prize, 2018 (shortlisted); Hammond House International Short Story Prize, 2017 (3rd); Frome Festival 2017 (winner); the H G Wells Short Story Competition, 2020 (shortlisted); and the William Faulkner Short Story Contest in New Albany, Mississippi, 2020 (winner). Her collection of 11 short stories, I Am the Mask Maker and other stories, was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Fiction prize in 2022.