Gwen Davies (born 1960s) is a Welsh editor and translator. Davies is the youngest of four children in a Welsh-speaking family, she was raised in Otley, West Yorkshire, England. Her parents were linguists, her father a published Welsh-language poet. Davies' began her first job in 1985 as a writer/editorial assistant on Planet magazine. She later managed the Welsh-language children's publisher, Cymdeithas Lyfrau Ceredigion, before becoming Literature Officer of the Arts Council of Wales in 1995. She lives in Aberystwyth with her husband and teenage son and daughter.