Tracy Cooper-Posey is a national
award-winning writer. An Australian, she brought her family with
her to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1996 to marry. Tracy is a “net
citizen”: She met and courted her husband on the Internet, and has
coordinated discussion groups and teaching on-line. She teaches
popular fiction writing both on-line and at college, and entertains
students and the public with anecdotes and insights into one the
most antisocial professions in the world, and the peculiar industry
it drives.
In
1994 Tracy won the Emma Darcy Award for novelists, for her novel
Eyes of a Stranger, and repeated her success by placing fourth
in the 1998 competition with Diana by the Moon. She has been
nominated for the Carol Anne Sorel Encouragement Award for writers,
and was awarded the Sherlock Holmes Society of Western Australia’s
Best Pastiche Award for her Sherlockian novel Chronicles of the
Lost Years -- a Sherlock Holmes Mystery. Diana by the Moon
was nominated for Best Original eBook in the prestigious Frankfurt
eBook Awards for 2000. Her short stories and articles have appeared
in various Canadian and Australian magazines and periodicals, and on
the Internet.
So far Tracy’s life has encompassed an eighteen month stint on
war-ravaged Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea, and at various
times she has been a secretary, office clerk, single mother,
freelance writer, public speaker, columnist, law student,
international traveler, writing teacher, advertising production
coordinator (for a national newsmagazine), web-press production
coordinator, and the first female cinematograph operator in Western
Australia. Most recently she was the editor and managing editor of
WHERE Edmonton magazine, and she also teaches creative
writing at Grant MacEwan College. She currently lives in Edmonton
with her husband and their blended family of three children.