Andrew Sant

[1] In 1962 Sant moved from London, where he was born, with his family to Melbourne where he finished his formal education.

He co-founded, in 1979, the major Australian literary magazine, Island, based in Tasmania, where by that time he had moved.

Other occupations have included teaching at both secondary and tertiary levels, teaching literacy to the unemployed and to prisoners, managing a hostel for juvenile offenders, copywriting and, as part-owner of a small Tasmanian company, cider making.

He is also the author of a number of published essays which have appeared in the annual Best Australian Essays anthology and collected in How to Proceed of which The Times Literary Supplement said, "There is a wonderfully digressive quality ... His syntax follows suit: sentences balloon across lines, the subject weaving in and out of focus as his mind travels around it.

[2] Sant has been invited to read his work in numerous countries including Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, New Zealand and, often, the UK.