Andy Jackson

Andy Jackson is a poet and creative writing teacher, and was awarded the inaugural Writing the Future of Health Fellowship. He has been shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, the John Bray Poetry Award and the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry. Andy has co-edited disability-themed issues of 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺 and 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭, and his latest poetry collection is 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨, which won the 2022 ALS Gold Medal and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry.