Myfanwy Collins was born in Montreal but moved to the Adirondack Mountains in New York when she was still a child. She has since lived in several cities and towns in New England. Myfanwy has worked as a waitress, a bartender, a nanny, a chambermaid, a clerk, a high school English teacher, a secretary, a ghost writer, and a traveling worker with the Cirque du Soleil. She has also worked in a couple of pioneering hi-tech companies, toiled as an underpaid non-profit worker, and done her time in newspaper marketing and record store promotions. Currently, she runs her own company.

Myfanwy's writing credits include The Kenyon Review, Cream City Review, AGNI, Swivel, The Boston Globe, and The Boston Phoenix. She was also recently featured in Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure (Harper Perennial). She is an Assistant Editor at Narrative/Story Quarterly.