Andrew Sutherland

Andrew Sutherland (he/they) is a Queer Poz (PLHIV) writer and performance-maker currently based on unceded Wurundjeri land. His work draws upon Queer and intercultural ways of being, filtering autobiographical practices through the lens of pop-cultural, ecological and viral dramaturgies.

Sutherland’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. He holds a BA (First Class Hons.) Acting from LASALLE College of the Arts and is currently undertaking PhD research at the Victorian College of the Arts.