Andy Kissane

Andy Kissane is a Melbourne-born, Sydney-based writer. He has won several awards for his writing, including the Sydney Writers' Festival Poetry Olympics, the Publisher's Cup Cricket Poetry Award, the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry and the BTG-Blue Dog Poetry Reviewing prize. In 2011, his book Out to Lunch was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize, one of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.^[1]

Personal life

Andy Kissane was born in Melbourne, but moved to Sydney in 1987, where 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. Andy is also a passionate supporter of the Brisbane Lions, coaches basketball and loves gardening, especially bushland regeneration. ^[1]

Publications

Works of poetry include Facing the Moon (Five Islands Press, 1993), Every Night They Dance (Five Islands Press, 2000)^[2] and Out to Lunch (Puncher & Wattmann, 2009).

Under the Same Sun (Sceptre, 2000),^[2] 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.

Facing the Moon ISBN 1-875604-10-3
Every Night They Dance ISBN 0-86418-544-8
Out to Lunch ISBN 978-1-921450-20-4
Under The Same Sun ISBN 978-0-7336-1265-7

Anthologies

Best Australian Poems 2010, (Black Inc), edited by Adam Robertson.
New Oxford Book of Australian Verse

References

1 2 http://andykissane.com/?page_id=41
1 2 Arnold, J. (2007) "The bibliography of Australian literature, Volume 3" University of Queensland Press.

External links

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