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.

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.

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

• Kissane, Andy (1993). Facing the moon. Five Islands Press. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
• Every Night They Dance (Five Islands Press, 2000) ISBN 0-86418-544-8
• Out to Lunch (Puncher & Wattmann, 2009) ISBN 978-1-921450-20-4

List of poems

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected
My mother's light	1996	Kissane, Andy (May 1996). "My mother's light [Breast Tryptych]". Quadrant. 40 (5): 58. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Fanny Burney's mastectomy, 1811	1996	Kissane, Andy (May 1996). "Fanny Burney's mastectomy, 1811 [Breast Tryptych]". Quadrant. 40 (5): 58–59. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
No ending	1996	Kissane, Andy (May 1996). "No ending [Breast Tryptych]". Quadrant. 40 (5): 59. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)

Novels

• Under the Same Sun (Sceptre, 2000) ISBN 978-0-7336-1265-7

External links

• The Australia Literature Resource
• ABC The Book Show
• Walleah Press
• Boomerang Books
• Cordite Poetry Review
• The Red Room Company