Nic Aubury was born in Watford in 1974 and grew up in the Midlands. He read Classics at Oxford and now teaches Latin and Greek for a living. He had a chapbook and a full collection of poetry published by the now defunct Nasty Little Press (Small Talk, 2011 & Cold Soup, 2013) and has performed his poetry at various festivals including Port Eliot, Latitude, the Cheltenham Poetry Festival and the Ledbury Poetry Festival. The poem Decline and Fall was chosen as a Poem of the Week in the Guardian newspaper in 2015, and poems of his have appeared in the Carcanet anthology New Poetries VI, in the Penguin anthology The Poetry of Sex, in the Bloodaxe/Ledbury Festival anthology Hwaet! and also in Sophie Hannah's novel The Carrier and on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.