Andrew Sutherland

Andrew Sutherland (he/they) is a Queer Poz (PLHIV) writer and performance-maker between Boorloo and Singapore. His work draws upon Queer and intercultural ways of being, filtering autobiographical practices through the lens of pop-cultural, ecological and viral dramaturgies. Andrew’s debut poetry collection Paradise (point of transmission) was published by Fremantle Press in 2022, and his poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction can be found in a range of journals and anthologies, including Westerly, Island, Overland, Portside Review, Australian Poetry Journal, Running Dog, EXHALE: an anthology of Queer voices from Singapore, We’ll Stand in That Place (Margaret River Press), Best of Australian Poems 2021, among others. He was awarded Overland’s Fair Australia Poetry Prize 2017, placed third in the Tom Collins Poetry Prize 2021, and was runner-up for the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize 2022. In 2022 he was commissioned by Ian Sinclair of PONY EXPRESS to produce a longform poetic installation for the VIRAL BODIES exhibition at The Bearded Tit, Redfern, and in 2023 was commissioned by to deliver the Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture for Perth Festival. He holds a BA (First Class Hons.) in Acting from LASALLE College of the Arts and focuses his practice on the collaborative creation of new performance works, whether as playwright, director, dramaturg, performer, or arts educator and sessional tutor. Andrew is grateful to reside on unceded Whadjuk Noongar land.