Aoife Mannix

Aoife Mannix was born in Sweden of Irish parents. She grew up in Dublin, Ottawa and New York before moving to the UK. Cocktails from the Ceiling (2013) is her latest poetry collection. She has four previous poetry publications with tall-lighthouse; The Trick of Foreign Words (2002), The Elephant in the Corner (2005), Growing Up An Alien (2007) and Turn The Clocks Upside Down (2008). She has also published a novel Heritage of Secrets (2008). She has been poet in residence for the Royal Shakespeare Company and BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live. She has performed throughout the UK and toured internationally with the British Council to China, Latvia, Nigeria, Turkey, Taiwan, Thailand, India, Norway and Austria.