Andy Kissane

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.

Personal Life

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.

Publications

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

Under the Same Sun (Sceptre, 2000), 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 1875604103
• Every Night They Dance ISBN 0864185448
• Out to Lunch ISBN 9781921450204
• Under The Same Sun ISBN 9780733612657

Anthologies

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

External links

• The Australia Literature Resource [1]
• ABC The Book Show [2]
• Walleah Press [3]
• Boomerang Books [4]
• Cordite Poetry Review [5]
• The Red Room Company [6]