Andrew Leggett

Andrew Leggett is an author and editor of fiction, poetry, interdisciplinary academic papers, reviews and songs. Andrew lives in Queensland, Australia, with his wife Linda. They collaborate musically to record as the Blood Moon Wailers. In addition to medical degrees and postgraduate qualifications in psychiatry and psychotherapy, he holds a research master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Queensland and a PhD in Creative Writing from Griffith University. He is an Associate Professor with James Cook University College of Medicine and Dentistry. He was editor of the Australasian Journal of Psychotherapy from 2006-2011 and prose editor for StylusLit from 2017-2022.
Andrew’s writing has been widely published internationally. His work has placed, been commended or shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Bridport International Poetry Prize, the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, the Australian Catholic University Prize for Poetry, the Joanne Burns Microlit Award, The Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award, The Whitsunday Writers Festival Heart Awards Prize for Poetry, The South Coast Writers Centre Poetry Prize, The Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Award, The IP Picks National Poetry Manuscript Prize, the Tasmanian Poetry Cup, The Melbourne Poetry Cup and the Australian Songwriters Awards (Australia Section). His work featured substantially in Verbal Medicine: Twenty-One Contemporary Clinician Poets (ed. Tim Metcalf), which won the Australian Capital Territory Writing and Publishing Award for poetry in 2007. His first two collections of poetry Old Time Religion and Other Poems (1998) and Dark Husk of Beauty (2006) were published by Interactive Press. His third collection of poetry, Losing Touch, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2022. As a spoken word performer, Andrew has been runner up in the Tasmanian Poetry Cup, the Melbourne Poetry Cup and captained the Queensland team in the Poetry State of Origin at Brisbane Writers Festival.