Eliza Henry-Jones was born in Melbourne in 1990. She was a Young Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre in 2012 and was a recipient of a Varuna residential fellowship for 2015.

She has qualifications in English, psychology and grief, loss and trauma counselling. She is currently completing honours in creative writing exploring bushfire trauma and works in community services.

She lives in the Dandenong Ranges with her husband and too many animals.