Linda France lives in Northumberland. She has published eight poetry collections, including The Toast of the Kit-Cat Club(Bloodaxe 2005) and Reading the Flowers (Arc 2016). She edited Sixty Women Poets(Bloodaxe 1993) and won the 2013 National Poetry Competition.
Linda France said: “I’m very much looking forward to judging this year’s Julia Darling Travel Fellowship, hoping to read some exciting proposals in the spirit of Julia’s own work and practice – vibrant, surprising and relevant to how we’re living now.”