Ian Aisch was born in Tremadog, North Wales. His early childhood was spent in nearby Penrhyndeudraeth. A little way up the hill from his home, heritage steam trains from the Ffestiniog Railway chugged by. His father worked in the local gunpowder works. Shortly after Ian turned seven, his family took up the £10 offer to migrate to Australia, settling in Echuca.

He studied sociology and politics at Monash University before becoming a public servant, first in Canberra and then Melbourne. He became an editor at Lonely Planet, on the back of his deep love of travel. Ian is now a full-time author and lives in Victoria’s Macedon Ranges. Thanks need to go to the cafés in Woodend, and the Top of the Range Café on Mt Macedon, where many of these words for his debut novel, Lost and Plooglitless, were written.

An especially huge thanks goes to the Woodend Library where most of Ian's writing takes place. Thanks also go to the many holiday destinations he visits, particularly Byron Bay, where many of the ideas for how his first work would unfold came together. Another deep thank you goes to Holgate’s Brewhouse, though very little writing was done there.