Readman grew up in Middlesbrough, following university in Manchester she relocated to Newcastle upon Tyne to complete a film studies MA.
She completed a masters in creative writing at the University of Northumbria in 2000, and won a Waterstones prize for her distinctive poetry and prose.
In 2013, Readman won first prize in the Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition, judged by Kathleen Jamie.
[8] In 2005, she edited Newcastle Stories (for Comma Press)[9] and accepted a post teaching creative writing at the University of Northumbria.
[citation needed] On 31 December 2007, Frieda Hughes printed the poem Housewife from the Strip collection in her regular Times newspaper column[10]