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.