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Tracy Ryan

Tracy Ryan was born and grew up in Western Australia. She has worked at various jobs in libraries, bookselling, editing, community journalism and university teaching. She is currently a PhD candidate at The University of Western Australia and has a BA in English from Curtin University and a BA (Hons) in French from the University of New England in NSW. She is especially interested in foreign languages and the translation of poetry. Married and a mother of two, she lives in Western Australia’s wheatbelt.

Awards

Winner, Mattara Poetry Prize, 1987
Shortlisted, Western Australian Premier’s Book
Award, 1994
Commended, National Book Council Banjo Award, 1997
Shortlisted, Western Australian Premier’s Book Award, 1998
Winner, Western Australian Premier’s Award, 2000
Winner, Trudie Graham Award for Memoir, 2007
Shortlisted, Age Book of the Year Award (poetry), 2008
Winner, Australian Book Review Poetry Prize, 2009

Books available from Fremantle Press

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From the Catalogue

House of Fiction @ Sydney Writers Festival

Who knew that Elizabeth Jolley’s life contained even more mystery and dark secrets than her fiction? Her stepdaughter Susan Swingler reconstructs the harrowing tale of a forbidden love affair and an abandoned child. She talks to Caroline Baum at the Sydney Writers Festival