Siriol Troup comes from a Welsh family but was born in Hong Kong and spent most of her childhood and teenage years abroad, in Africa, Germany, Holland and Iran. She now lives in Twickenham with her husband and four children.

She read Modern Languages (French and German) at St Hugh's College, Oxford and later returned there to teach 19th and 20th century French Literature. From 2001 to 2004 she was involved in running TRIO (Translation Research in Oxford), helping to organize international interdisciplinary conferences including The Anatomy of Laughter, Translating Freud, and Translating Proust Again.

Her poems have previously appeared in The TLS, Poetry Review, PN Review, Poetry London, Poetry Wales, Modern Poetry in Translation , and other journals. Her pamphlet, Moss , won the Poetry Monthly Open Booklet competition in 2002 and her first full-length collection, Drowning up the Blue End , was published by Bluechrome in 2004.

She has won many prizes for her poems, including 2nd prize in the Arvon International Poetry Competition 2006. She teaches and lectures on poetry and is currently poet in residence for the Twickenham River Centre Project. Beneath the Rime is her second collection.