Andrew Sutherland (he/they) is a Queer Poz (PLHIV) writer and performance-maker from Boorloo (Perth) and Singapore, currently based in Naarm on the unceded lands of the Kulin nation. Andrew’s debut poetry collection Paradise (point of transmission) was published by Fremantle Press in 2022 and shortlisted for the Small Press Network Book of the Year prize. His second, Act Cute, is forthcoming in July 2025. Andrew was the scholarship recipient of the Faber Writing Academy in 2022 and a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk fellow in 2024. Publication history includes Westerly, Best of Australian Poems, Australian Poetry Journal, Overland, Suburban Review, Cordite, EXHALE: an anthology of Queer voices from Singapore, among numerous others. Andrew works in the performance sector as maker, playwright, director, performer, dramaturg, arts educator, and mentor. He is a PhD candidate at the Victorian College of the Arts, pursuing practice-as-research surrounding the ‘haunted repertoires’ of the HIV+ undetectable status.
