Authors » Tracy Ryan

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

Website

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.
Read more