Joelle Taylor has worked extensively as a performance poet and spoken-word artist since 1986, and has led numerous writing and performance workshops in schools, theatres and art centres. She has toured nationally both as a solo artist and as a member of Atomic Lip, a polyphonic performance poetry group who produced two pop-poetry videos funded by the National Lottery. She is also the Artistic Director of Transgressive Art Physical Poetry Company, and has performed her poetry, stories and plays at the ICA, Dingwalls, Ronnie Scott's, the Oval House and Drill Hall Theatre.