Eluned Gramich is a Welsh-German writer, translator and librarian. Her memoir of her time in Hokkaido, Japan, Woman Who Brings the Rain, won the inaugural New Welsh Writing Award in 2015 and was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year in 2016. More recently, she received the Ghastling Novella Award 2020 for a lockdown ghost story, Sleep Training. Her debut novel, Windstill (Honno), came out in November 2022. She lives in Aberystwyth with her partner and two daughters.