[1] Her father was Australian surgeon Peter John Ryan.
She lived in Sydney 1978–1990, and later became poetry editor of The Age newspaper 1998–2016.
She has also recorded her songs with the bands Disband and Driving Past.
Her book Pure and Applied won the 1999 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and Heroic Money was shortlisted for the 2002 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry.
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