Andy Kissane is a Melbourne-born, Sydney-based writer. He has won several awards for his writing, including the Red Earth Poetry Award, the Sydney Writers' Festival Poetry Olympics, the John Shaw Neilson Award, the Publisher's Cup Cricket Poetry Award, the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry and the BTG-Blue Dog Poetry Reviewing prize.
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Andy Kissane was born in Melbourne in 1959. He lives in Sydney with his partner and daughter. He has worked as a high school teacher, writer-in-residence, and university lecturer. He has produced audio books and written poetry and fiction.
Works of poetry include Facing the Moon (Five Islands Press, 1993), Every Night They Dance (Five Islands Press, 2000)[1] and Out to Lunch (Puncher & Wattmann, 2009).
Under the Same Sun (Sceptre, 2000)[1], his first novel, depicting the lives of immigrant workers on the Snowy River Scheme was shortlisted for the Vision Australia Audio Book of the Year.