Aoife Mannix

Aoife Mannix was born in Stockholm, Sweden to Irish parents. She grew up in Dublin, Ottawa and New York. She has been general manager of the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers Programme and script editor for the BBC drama series Holby City. Her first novel Heritage of Secrets was published in 2008 by Flipped Eye. She is the author of four collections of poetry; The Trick of Foreign Words (2002), The Elephant in the Corner (2005), Growing Up An Alien (2007) and Turn The Clocks Upside Down (2008) - all with Tall Lighthouse. She is currently poet in residence on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live.

She lives in London. See www.aoifemannix.com for more information.