The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw a flourishing of Welsh literary culture, in which poetry and the Welsh language were cultivated by writers from a wide range of social backgrounds. Thomas Evans was one such figure, a man who worked as a weaver and a writer born in Gwernogle on 20 June 1764.

Evans pursued the craft of poetry alongside his work as a weaver, representing a strand of Welsh literary life in which those engaged in manual trades also participated in the written arts. The facts of his life place him squarely within a period when Welsh writers were active across different occupational spheres, contributing to a broader culture of letters that was not confined to formally educated or privileged classes. He continued this dual engagement with trade and writing until his death, which occurred in January 1833. The precise date recorded in available sources varies between 1 January and 29 January of that year, though both place his passing in the same month. No specific critical honors or documented reception of his work appear in the surviving record, but the bare outline of his life — weaver, poet, and writer from Gwernogle — marks him as a participant in the literary world of his era.