Tracy Ryan is an award-winning poet born in Western Australia who has also lived in England, the United States and Ireland, and recently completed a residency in Germany. The Water Bearer is her eighth poetry title with Fremantle Press. She has also published Hoard (2015) with Whitmore Press, and earlier books with Arc and Bloodaxe in Britain. Tracy Ryan is also the author of four novels: Claustrophobia, Sweet, Jazz Tango and Vamp. A fifth novel, We Are Not Most People, will be published in 2018. In 2010 she was editor of Fremantle Poets 1: New Poets, and in 2017 co-editor of The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry.