Linda France was born in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, and for the past 16 years has lived close to Hadrian's Wall, near Corbridge in Northumberland. She works as a poet, tutor, mentor and editor, often collaborating with visual artists, particularly in the field of Public Art. Since 1990 her poetry (including The Simultaneous Dress & The Toast of the Kit Cat Club, from Bloodaxe Books) has won many awards and prizes as well as being carved into stone and wood, cast in metal, etched in glass, stitched onto fabric and printed on enamel. Her recurring themes are landscape and history, flora and fauna, love and identity. In Autumn 2009 Smokestack Books published book of days, a 'year renga'. Her latest collection, You are Her, appeared in April 2010, published by Arc.