Immanuel Mifsud was born in Malta in 1967, the youngest in a working class family of eight children.
He started writing poetry at age 16, when he co-founded the literary group Versarti. He also started writing scripts and directing experimental plays.
Later on he directed plays by Dario Fo, Max Frisch, Harold Pinter and Federico Garcia Lorca.
In 1990 he founded his group Theatre of the Blind and then Teatru Marta Kwitt, performing in Malta, Edinburgh and Sarajevo.
His latest theatre venture was translating and directing Anton Chekchov’s The Seagull.
Immanuel Mifsud has published a number of prose works and poetry, some of which have been translated into various languages and published in various countries.