Background
Rhyll McMaster was born on August 13, 1947 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Rhyll McMaster was born on August 13, 1947 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Rhyll has worked as a secretary, a nurse and a sheep farmer. Her poems have been appearing in Australian publications since she was sixteen. McMaster has also been employed by The Canberra Times as a poetry editor and as a book reviewer by The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and Australian Book Review. She now lives in Sydney and has written full-time since 2000.
Rhyll's first book of poetry "The Brineshrimp" (1972) won the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry. "Washing the Money" (1986) was awarded the C.J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry. "Flying the Coop, New and Selected Poems, 1972-1994" was awarded the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1994. Her book "Feather Man" was awarded the inaugural 2008 Barbara Jefferis Award and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards in 2008. It was shortlisted for the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Award in 2007 and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 2008 for an outstanding literary work.
Rhyll married Roger McDonald in 1967, but the couple divorced in 1994. McMaster has three daughters.
