The Editor             
          Malcolm Bradley, Quattrocento's editor, was born in Devon but lived in North Wales for over twenty-five years. In July 2008 he got married and moved to Austria. He attended the University of North Wales, Bangor as a mature student of English, gaining in first class honours in 2000.   His own poetry has appeared in numerous magazines over the years, and his collection of poetry, Reinventing the Globe, appeared from  Fambard Press in the same year, resulting in his becoming a full member of the Welsh Academy the following year.

          He launched the first issue of Quattrocento in September 2004 to a very encouraging reception, and by the third issue (September2005) had received a small grant from the Welsh Books Council.

                                                    Malcolm can be contacted at:   

                                  E mail address:  malcbradley@hotmail.co.uk

                                  Postal address:   Reucklstrasse 24,
                                                            2020 Hollabrunn ,  AUSTRIA

                                                Portrait of Malcolm Bradley
                                  By Peter Barnes. (Pastels on Paper. 2007)

       Ceris Dien, Quattrocento's assistant editor, lives in Penmaenmawr, North Wales.  She has a strong interest in linguistics, a subject she studied at the University of Wales, Bangor,where she also studied Welsh and Welsh literature; influential writers include D. J. Williams, Robert Williams Parry and Gerard Manley Hopkins.  Her poetry has only recently begun to be published.

         Ceris has recently joined Quattrocento to promote an increased Welsh based content to the magazine as well as assisting Malcolm with the large number of submissions.

                                                        Quarry;   a poem by Ceris

      Quattrocento;  a period in early  Italian Renaissance art, culminating around the end of the fifteenth Century, which saw the conquest of nature and the invention of perspective.  The word means, literally, the "four hundreds" and precedes the most celebrated period of Renaissance art beginning in the sixteenth Century and known as the Cinquecento.