Angela Blacklock-Brown was born in Dumfries and brought up in Newton Stewart, Dumfries and Galloway. Her first professional writing began as a young teenager with the publication of an article in the Girl Guide Annual in 1963, followed by an invitation to submit further work. A second article was published in 1965. At school, she became Assistant Editor and Editor of the magazine, contributing travel articles and poetry.

As a Modern Languages teacher, she wrote regular features for the Times Educational Supplement and in 1999 co-wrote a French Revision Guide Book for the Co-ordination Group Ltd in Cumbria. In 2016 she was commissioned to co-write a German Revision Guide for the company.

In 1992 she won The Scotrail/RNLI short story competition with ‘The Yellow Wellie Brigade,’ based on a true experience yachting round the Western Isles.

In 1999 she joined the Scottish Poetry Library as Library Assistant and was encouraged by the director Robyn Marsack to apply for the Masters in Creative Writing at Glasgow University where she graduated M Phil in 2004.

Over the years she has had poems published in anthologies, literary magazines, Stanza’s Poetry Map of Scotland ‘The Herald’ and ‘The Scotsman’, online in Glasgow University’s e- magazine, ‘From Glasgow To Saturn’ as well broadcast on Radio Scotland. She has also published ten poetry pamphlets, most of which are available to consult either in the Scottish Poetry Library or in the National Library of Scotland (see Pamphlet page).