Readman grew up in Middlesbrough, following university in Manchester she relocated to Newcastle upon Tyne to complete a film studies Master of Arts. She completed a masters in creative writing at the University of Northumbria in 2000, and won a Waterstones prize for her distinctive poetry and prose.
Once Upon There Was a Traveller (the asham award winners anthology),(Virago, 2013) Root (Iron Press, 2013) Unthology 3 (Unthanked Books, 2012) The Robin Hood Book (Caparison, 2012) Magnetic North (New Writing North, 2005) Smelter (Mudfog) 2004 The Flesh of the Bear (Ek Zuban) Under the Bridge (University of Northumbria Press) 2000 "Readman casts her eye on ordinary life with a sharp knife. This is witty, astute poetry of the inventive kind and feels important, as all good poetry should… with an edge" Julia Darling "Angela Readman’s work is a carefully stitched embroidery of the familiar and the often overlooked or taken for grantedshe makes pictures that stay in your mind long after the poem has been read. Sharply observant, dry, savage and wholly authentic." Joolz Denby.
Angela Readman won the International Rubery Book Award in 2015 for her book of short stories, "Don"t Try This at Home". Her story "The Keeper of the Jackalopes" won the Costa Short Story Award (2013) and her story "Don"t Try This At Home" was shortlisted for the same competition the previous year. In 2013, Readman won first prize in the Mslexia Women"s Competition, judged by Kathleen Jamie. She won the National Flash Fiction Contest, and the Essex Prize in 2012 and was placed second in the first Short Story Competition in 2011. She has won New Writing North awards, and won the Ragged Raven longer poems competition. In 2005 she won The Biscuit competition and publication of a collection Sex with Elvis.
