Jeanine Leane

Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri novelist and poet from the Murrumbidgee River near Gundagai. In 2010, the manuscript for her first novel, Purple Threads, won the David Unaipon Award for an unpublished Indigenous writer and her first volume of poetry, Dark Secrets After Dreaming, won the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous poetry. She is currently an Australian Research Council Fellow at the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the Australian National University.

Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri novelist and poet from the Murrumbidgee River near Gundagai. In 2010, the manuscript for her first novel, Purple Threads, won the David Unaipon Award for an unpublished Indigenous writer and her first volume of poetry, Dark Secrets After Dreaming, won the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous poetry. She is currently an Australian Research Council Fellow at the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the Australian National University. See less