Olga Masters

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Olga Masters née Lawler (28 May 1919 – 1986) was an Australian journalist, writer and author. She was born in Pambula.

In 1940, she married Charles Masters with whom she had seven children including (not in order) journalist Chris Masters, rugby league coach and journalist Roy Masters, film maker Quentin Masters, radio broadcaster Ian Masters and media producers Sue Masters and Deb Masters.

Masters started work as a journalist at the age of 15 on the Cobargo Chronicle, a weekly newspaper serving the south coastal area between Bega and Moruya. She later worked for local newspapers all over New South Wales including, latterly, The Manly Daily and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Having started to write creatively late in life Masters' quantity of published work is small but her impact was disproportionate in that her style and writings about writing inspired many others to take up the craft.

Masters died in Sydney in 1986.