Angela’s biography from The Scottish Poetry Library website :
‘Angela McSeveney was born in Edinburgh and brought up in Ross-shire, Livingston and the Scottish Borders, where she attended Galashiels Academy for six years. She moved to Edinburgh to study in 1982 and has lived there ever since. She is currently employed as a Personal Care Assistant.
While at university she was given advice and encouragement by the Writers in Residence Ron Butlin and Liz Lochhead. Polygon published Coming Out With It in 1992 ; Imprint was published in 2002 by Edinburgh Review, and a pamphlet, Slaughtering Beetroot, produced by the Mariscat Press in 2008. ‘
From www.shorepoets.
Angela McSeveney became a Shore Poet in 2003 and Treasurer not long after. Her first collection of poems, Coming Out With It, was published in 1992, after she received advice and encouragement from fellow writers Liz Lochhead and Ron Butlin. She has since published three pamphlets, the most recent of which, Still Bristling, was published by Mariscat Press in 2012. She lives in Edinburgh.