Olivia McCannon was born on Merseyside and is based in Harlesden, London and Belleville, Paris. This is her first collection; her poems have appeared in international and British publications including Modern Poetry in Translation, Penguin's Poems for Life, Poems for Love and the Carcanet OxfordPoets Anthology 2007. She has written lyrics and librettos for composers and singers, and her short fiction has been broadcast on Radio 4. Her translations include Balzac's Old Man Goriot (Penguin Classics, 2011), modern French poetry in Poetry of Place: Paris (Eland, 2012) and contemporary Francophone plays for the Royal Court theatre in London.
