Andy Kissane, born 13 September 1959, is a

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-born, Sydney-based writer. He has written a number of poetry collections as well as short stories, novels and non-fiction.

Personal life

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,

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and university lecturer. He has also produced audiobooks. Kissane is a supporter of the

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and coaches basketball. He enjoys gardening, especially bushland regeneration. His older brother is the Australian psychiatrist Professor

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Awards and Accolades

Kissane has won several awards for his writing, including the

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Poetry Olympics, the Publisher's Cup Cricket Poetry Award, the

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and the BTG-Blue Dog Poetry reviewing prize. In 2011, his book ''Out to Lunch'' was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, one of

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.http://andykissane.com/?page_id=41 His poem ''Searching the Dead'' was joint winner of the 2019

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Bibliography

Poetry

* ''Facing the moon'' (Five Islands Press, 1993) *''Every Night They Dance'' (Five Islands Press, 2000) * ''Out to Lunch'' (Puncher & Wattmann, 2009) *''Radiance'' (Puncher & Wattmann, 2014) *''The Tomb of the Unknown Artist'' (Puncher and Wattmann, 2019)

Fiction

Short story collections

* ''The Swarm'' (Puncher & Wattmann, 2012)

Novels

* ''Under the Same Sun'' (Sceptre, 2000)

Non-Fiction

* ''Feeding the Ghost 1: Criticism on Contemporary Australian Poetry'' (ed. with David Musgrave & Carolyn Rickett) (Puncher & Wattmann, 2018)

References

External links

Official website – andykissane.comThe Australia Literature Resource

Cordite Poetry Review

The Red Room Company
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