Marion Tracy was born in the UK and spent her childhood in Brighton on the south coast. After obtaining an MA in English Literature from London University she worked for many years as a lecturer in English/Communications/ Literature in colleges of Further Education in Hertfordshire. She then moved to Australia with her husband, for a temporary sea change  in Port Macquarie, half way between Sydney and Byron Bay. She has two grown up children.

She particularly enjoys poetry workshops online and reading at open mike events. She is a member of Second Light Network and recently had two poems commended in their annual poetry competition, selected by judge Pauline Stainer, and published in ARTEMISpoetry.

 In Australia, she has been published in a variety of literary journals:  Blue Dog, Blue Giraffe, Eucalypt, Famous Reporter, Five Bells, Heat, Hecate, Idiom 23, Micro press, and the Poet’s Union Anthology.

In the UK, she has been published in: ARTEMISpoetry, Dream Catcher, Fire, The Interpreter's House, Mslexia, Obsessed With Pipework, Poetry Express, Raindog, Scintilla, Tears in the Fence, Peony Moon, The Rialto, Poetry Wales, Under the Radar and Iota.

In Scintilla 11, adjudicator Hilary Llewellyn-Williams wrote:

Marion Tracy’s Shooting Star is a wonderful, surreal personalisation of a meteor…and its meaning for a child trying to comprehend the infinity of the universe. The meaning of the cosmos, the poem implies, is in our power to invest it with meaning…This is a cleverly constructed poem too, with the enjambment of the first three stanzas causing the eye to sweep across the lines as if following the trail of a star.  

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 poetry favourites:

The Poetry Library

The Australian Poetry Centre

Second Light Live

Guardian Poetry Workshop

The Arvon Foundation

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