Andy Jackson

Andy Jackson is a poet and essayist. His 2021 collection Human Looking won the ALS Gold Medal and the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry. Andy is a co-editor of Raging Grace: Australian Writers Speak Out on Disability (Puncher & Wattman 2024), an anthology of collaborative poems and essays. He has featured at literary events and arts festivals across Australia, on ABC's Radio National and the 7.30 Report, and at the Final Ceremonial Sitting of the Disability Royal Commission. His new poetry collection is Askew (Giramondo 2026), a new crip lyric for our unsettled times. Andy is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne, and he writes and rests on Dja Dja Wurrung country.