Andrew McKenna has been a journalist for more than 30 years, with work published in Australia, the UK, the USA and Canada. His theatre works have been presented on stage in Australia and on national radio, he has performed one-man shows in Australia and Ireland, and his fiction is published in Australia, Canada and the USA in Antipodes Magazine, Carve Magazine, River Teeth, Dead Mule, New England Review, Terra Incognita, The Petroglyph Review, Gowanus Books, The Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Rundelania, the Montreal Review, Upstream Journal and in Australia, in Kalimat, Sūdō and Island.

He contributed to ‘Journalism at the Crossroads’ by Margaret Simons, Scribe Publications.

In 2005 he was awarded an Australia Council Emerging Writers grant. He lives in Cairns, Australia, with his wife, son, and many books.