Angela Costi is the author of six poetry collections: Dinted Halos, Prayers for the Wicked, Honey & Salt (shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Poetry Prize 2008), Lost in Mid-Verse, An Embroidery of Old Maps and New and The Heart of the Advocate. She has also eight produced plays / performance text. Since 1994, her writing has been widely published and anthologised. In 1995, she received a travel award from the Australia National Languages and Literacy Board to study Ancient Greek Drama in Greece. The Relocated arts project, for which she was writer-in-residence at the former Kensington Public Housing Estate, received the national award for community innovation, 2002. In 2009, she travelled to Japan with support from the Australia Council for the Arts as part of an international collaboration to perform her poetic text A Nest of Cinnamon. In 2021, she received the High Commendation for Contribution to Arts and Culture, Merri-bek Award. She is also known as Aggeliki Kosti among the Cypriot Greek diaspora (her heritage and ancestry).