- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE6132
McMaster, Rhyll
(1947 – )- Born 1 January, 1947, Brisbane Queensland Australia
- Occupation Author, Poet, Writer
Summary
Rhyll McMaster began writing poetry at an early age, with several poems published in the Bulletin whilst still in high school.
After moving to Hobart in 1967, Rhyll worked in the editorial office of the journal Australian Literary Studies, which was then based at the University of Tasmania.
After returning to Brisbane in c.1969, then moving to a rural area near Canberra, Rhyll settled in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales where she began writing full time.
Rhyll’s first collection, The Brineshrimp was published in 1972 and has since published a further six collections, including Washing the Money: Poems with Photographs, joint winner of the C. J. Dennis prize and winner of the Grace Leven Prize in 1986, and Flying the Coop: New and Selected Poems 1972-1994, joint winner of the Grace Leven Prize for 1995. Rhyll published her acclaimed debut novelFeather Man in 2007, winning the inaugural Barbara Jefferis Award.