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.
Poetry
;Collections- Every Night They Dance
- Out to Lunch
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
| My mother's light | 1996 | ||
| Fanny Burney's mastectomy, 1811 | 1996 | ||
| No ending | 1996 |