Dr Jeanine Leane
Wiradjuri Writer, Poet, Critic, Academic
Dr Jeanine Leane on Wiradjuri Country at Nangus Bridge (Photo: Peter Comisari)
Ngindhu nginha murrugay mayiny-galang Ngurambang-gu.
You are here on First Peoples’ Country.
Ngadhu banhi gu gulbarra Wiradjuri mayiny-galang murrugay mayiny-galang Ngurambang-gu.
I acknowledge the Wiradjuri People, the First Peoples of the land.
Durrubuwulin!
Always!
Jeanine Leane is a poet, essayists, critic and activist who works across poetry, prose, critique, installation and performance.
She has authored two collections of poetry Walk Back Over (2018) and Gawimarra – Gathering – winner of the 2025 Victorian Premier’s Award for Poetry; and an episodic novel Purple Threads – winner of the 2010 David Unaipon Award and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize 2012. She was the editor of Guwayu – for all times – A collection of First Nations Poetry (2020); and co-editor of Shapeshifting: First Nations Lyric Nonfiction (2024).
Jeanine works at the intersections of poetry, visual art, and performance and is regularly commissioned to write poetry for art exhibitions and performance. Her creative, critical, projects and outputs are practice-led and community-focussed in their acknowledgement long histories of Aboriginal storytelling which she is privileged to inherit.
