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Tracy Ryan Tracy Ryan i(A23954 works by)
Born: Established: 1964 Perth, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Female
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Tracy Ryan grew up in a large family in the Midland area of Perth, Western Australia. After reading English at Curtin University, she studied European languages at the University of Western Australia and translated many French writers, including Helene Cixous, Maryline Desboilles and Francoise Han. She completed a BA in Literature at the University of Western Australia. Ryan is a former bookseller and tutor. She has lived in Cambridge, England where she has worked as a bookseller, tutor, editor and writer. Much of her paid work has been in libraries. Ryan was Judith E. Wilson Junior Visiting Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge in 1998 taught Australian Literature and Film at the University of East Anglia. She spent much of 2000 in Perth working on her book of poems Hothouse. Ryan is an editor as well as a writer.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Hoard Geelong : Whitmore Press , 2015 8884237 2015 selected work poetry

'he poems in Tracy Ryan's latest collection move on 'feet of drought and tinder' from Australia to the bogs of Ireland, drawing on many eras, to test the edges of both a cutover myth and a real landscape in need of recognition and preservation. What emerges from this poetic bogland is a hoard, an archive of histories and wishes, bright gold 'glimpses yielding up fragments then closing over'.' (Publication summary)

2014 joint winner The Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize
Prospect i "Crown of hills tender with green and dandelion", 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Dazzled : The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize 2014; (p. 39)
2014 longlisted The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize
y separately published work icon Claustrophobia Yarraville : Transit Lounge , 2014 7121314 2014 single work novel

Claustrophobia is the taut, compelling story of a young Perth wife who sets out to protect her husband by stalking his ex-lover, but unexpectedly falls into a passionate affair and a world of lies.

2016 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Fiction
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