Frances Presley lives in London. Most of her work up until 2009 can be found in Paravane (Salt, 2004); Myne (Shearsman, 2006), and Lines of Sight (Shearsman, 2009). Since then she has produced An Alphabet for Alina with artist Peterjon Skelt (Five Seasons, 2012), Halse for Hazel, with images by Irma Irsara (Shearsman, 2014), which received an Arts Council award, and Sallow (Leafe, 2016). She is currently working on a sequence about Ada Lovelace, mathematician and computer pioneer, who was also interested in flight and birds. Presley’s work is in the anthologies Infinite Difference (2010), Ground Aslant: radical landscape poetry (2011), and Out of Everywhere2 (2015).