Angela
Costi is based in
Melbourne, Australia, on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. Her
heritage is Cypriot-Greek and is known among the Cypriot-Greek diaspora as
Aggeliki Kosti. The author
of five poetry collections: Dinted Halos, Prayers for the Wicked, Honey & Salt, Lost in Mid-Verse and An
Embroidery of Old Maps and New. In 1995, she
received a travel award from the Australia National Languages and Literacy
Board to study Ancient Greek Drama in Greece. In 2009, she travelled to Japan with support from
the Australia Council for the Arts to work on an international collaboration
with Stringraphy Ensemble, to perform her text A Nest of Cinnamon. In 2021, City of Melbourne creative development
funding is enabling her to work on a new suite of poetry with the working
title: The Heart of the Advocate (informed by the classic legal textbook The Art of the Advocate by Richard Du Cann).