Jonathan Edwards (born 1979) is a contemporary Welsh poet, who was born in Newport, South Wales and grew up in Crosskeys.He won the Terry Heatherington award in 2010, prizes at the Cardiff International Poetry Competition and the Basil Bunting award in 2012.His first book, the poetry collection My Family and Other Superheroes, won a £1,000 first-place prize at the Ledbury Poetry Festival's International Competition in 2014,and the Costa Book Award for Poetry in 2014.