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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
Shortlisted, Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, 2012
Winner, WA Premiers Literary Award 2012, Poetry 2012
Shortlisted, Kenneth Slessor Prize, NSW Premiers Awards, 2012
Books available from Fremantle Press
- Unearthed 2013
- The Argument 2011
- Fremantle Poets 1: New Poets 2010
- Sweet 2008
- Scar Revision 2008
- Hothouse 2002
- Jazz Tango 2002
- Willing Eye, The 1999
- Vamp 1997
- Vamp ebook 1997
- Bluebeard in Drag 1996
- Killing Delilah 1994
Website
From the Catalogue
Ten Tiny Things on Wilderness Society shortlist
Ten Tiny Things author Meg McKinlay was pleasantly surprised to be shortlisted for the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature, just one day after winning a Crystal Kite award.
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