Jeanine Leane

Jeanine Leane (born 1961) is a Wiradjuri poet and activist from southwest New South Wales. She is an associate professor in creative writing at the University of Melbourne.

Biography Jeanine Leane was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. She is a member of the Wiradjuri nation.

She earned her BA in Literature and History from University of New England, Armidale in 1983. She earned a Graduate Diploma of Education from University of Canberra in 1984.

In 2011, she earned a doctorate in Australian literature and Aboriginal representation. Her research not only explored Aboriginal narratives, but examined white settler icons to give an Aboriginal perspective and critique.

Literary career Leane's poetry and creative works explore Aboriginal perspectives and settler presentations in literature, and Aboriginal writing "as an important site of personal, national and collective memory." She has published three volumes of poetry and fiction, and numerous other publications including poetry, book reviews, and interviews.

Even her fictional book, Purple Threads, is a fictionalization of the women in her life including her mother, grandmother, and aunts.

Published works Dark Secrets After Dreaming: AD 1887-1961 (poetry) Purple Threads (fiction) Walk Back Over (poetry) Guwayu (poetry, edited volume) gawimarra gathering (poetry)

Recognition In 2010, her first volume of poetry Dark Secrets After Dreaming: AD 1887-1961 won the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry from the Australian Poets' Union. 2019, Oodergroo Noonucal Prize for Poetry 2019, Red Room Poetry Fellowship for "Voicing the Unsettled Space: Rewriting the Colonial Mythscape" 2020, Discovery Indigenous Award ''