Jeanine Leane
{{Short description|Wiradjuri Aboriginal poet and academic (born 1961)}}
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| birth_date = 1961
| birth_place = Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
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| occupation = Poet, activist, and academic
| nationality = Aboriginal, Wiradjuri
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| awards = David Harold Tribe Poetry Award{{cite web |title=Wiradjuri poet Jeanine Leane wins Australia's richest poetry prize |url=https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/10/06/wiradjuri-poet-jeanine-leane-wins-australia-s-richest-poetry-pri.html |website=University of Sydney}}
| alma_mater = University of New England, Armidale; University of Canberra
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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.{{cite web |title=Jeanine Leane |url=https://www.loc.gov/events/2019-national-book-festival/authors/item/no2015028926/jeanine-leane/ |website=Library of Congress}} She is a member of the Wiradjuri nation.{{cite journal |last1=Wheeler |first1=Belinda |title=An Interview with Jeanine Leane. |journal=Antipodes |date=2014 |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=173–182 |doi=10.13110/antipodes.28.1.0173}}
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.{{cite web |title=Jeanine Leane |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A57834 |website=Austlit |publisher=University of Queensland Australia}}
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.
She had a long career as a secondary school teacher before becoming faculty at University of Melbourne. She worked with Aboriginal students to support them entering university programs. She also taught indigenous education to non-Aboriginal student teachers.
She was an Indigenous Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Leane was also a post-doctoral fellow in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the Australian National University.{{cite web |title=Jeanine Leane |url=https://www.monash.edu/arts/monash-indigenous-studies/literary-commons/literary-commons-participants/jeanine-leane |website=Monash University}}
=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."{{cite web |title=Jeanine Leane |url=https://www.monash.edu/arts/monash-indigenous-studies/literary-commons/literary-commons-participants/jeanine-leane |website=Monash University}} 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.{{cite journal |last1=Leane |first1=Jeanine |last2=Wheeler |first2=Belinda |title=Gender in Purple Threads: An Interview with Jeanine Leane |journal=Hecate |date=2014 |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=84–92}}
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. Her novel Purple Threads won the David Unaipon Award.
In 2013, she received an Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous Fellowship. In 2020, she received a JUNCTURE fellowship.
- 2017, University of Canberra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Poetry Prize
- 2017, Oodergroo Noonucal Prize for Poetry{{cite web |title=Jeanine Leane |url=https://consortium.gws.wisc.edu/conference/past-conferences/events-3/jeanine-leane/ |website=University of Wisconsin Madison}}
- 2019, Oodergroo Noonucal Prize for Poetry{{cite web |title=Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize |url=https://www.qldpoetry.org/oodgeroo-noonuccal-prize-for-indigenous-poetry |website=Queensland Poetry}}
- 2019, Red Room Poetry Fellowship for "Voicing the Unsettled Space: Rewriting the Colonial Mythscape"{{cite web |title=Jeanine Leane |url=https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/writer/jeanine-leane/ |website=Sydney Review of Books}}
- 2020, Discovery Indigenous Award
- 2023, David Harold Tribe Award for Poetry for "Water Under the Bridge"
- 2025, Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry for gawimarra gathering{{Cite news |last=Story |first=Hannah |date=2025-03-19 |title=Growing up, Wanda got old dresses for Xmas. Her book about it just won $125k |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/wanda-gibson-victorian-prize-for-literature-three-dresses/105053764 |access-date=2025-03-19 |work=ABC News |language=en-AU}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.loc.gov/events/2019-national-book-festival/schedule/item/webcast-8833/ Video: Australia's Aboriginal Writers: 2019 National Book Festival]
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Category:University of New England (Australia) alumni
Category:University of Canberra alumni
Category:University of Melbourne alumni