Aoife Mannix was born in Sweden of Irish parents. She grew up in Dublin, Ottawa and New York before moving to the UK. She has been poet-in-residence for the Royal Shakespeare Company and BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live. She is the author of five collections of poetry, all with Tall-Lighthouse Press: The Trick of Foreign Words (2002), The Elephant in the Corner (2005), Growing Up An Alien (2007), Turn The Clocks Upside Down (2008), and Cocktails from the Ceiling (2013), as well as of four librettos published by Edition Peters. Her novel 'Heritage of Secrets' is being reissued by Flipped Eye in 2021.