Angela France has had poems published in many of the leading journals and has been anthologised a number of times. Her publications include Occupation (Ragged Raven Press, 2009), Lessons in Mallemaroking (Nine Arches Press, 2011) and Hide (Nine Arches Press 2013). Angela is features editor of Iota and runs a reading series, Buzzwords.

Angela’s poem for The Other Side of Sleep Lïr, is an exploration of the forming of a storyteller, and the effect of stories on the teller, written as an unrhymed sonnet sequence.