Andrew Sutherland (he/they) is a Queer Poz (PLHIV) writer and performance-maker from between Boorloo (Perth) and Singapore, currently based in Naarm on the unceded lands of the Kulin nation. His work draws upon the viral instabilities of identity, pop culture and the autofictive self. 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 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 holds a BA (First Class Hons.) Acting from LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore and works in the performance space as collaborative maker, playwright, director, performer, dramaturg, arts educator, and mentor. He has been part of the creation of dozens of new performance works across the independent sector, particularly in Western Australia. Andrew has been an arts educator for Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, WA Youth Theatre Co., Black Swan State Theatre Co., Perth Festival, Centre for Stories, Australian Theatre for Young People, SingLit Station, among others. He is a current PhD candidate at the Victorian College of the Arts, pursuing practice-as-research surrounding the ‘haunted repertoires’ of the HIV+ undetectable status.
