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Jeanine Leane Jeanine Leane i(A57834 works by)
Born: Established: Wagga Wagga, Wagga Wagga area, Riverina - Murray area, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Wiradjuri
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BiographyHistory

Wiradjuri woman Dr Jeanine Leane, from south-west New South Wales, grew up on a sheep farm near Gundagai and was educated in Gundagai, Wagga Wagga, Armidale, and Canberra. In 1983, Jeanine was conferred her BA in Literature and History from the University of New England, Armidale, and in 1984 she was awarded a Graduate Diploma of Education from the University of Canberra. After a long career in teaching at secondary and tertiary levels, Jeanine was conferred her PhD in the literature of Aboriginal representation by the University of Technology, Sydney, in 2011.

She has been an Indigenous Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), and has held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Australian National University in Canberra. Jeanine was the National Coordinator for BlackWords during 2010 and 2011. In 2012, Jeanine became a recipient of the Australian Research Council Discovery grant for her project 'Reading the Nation: A Critical Study of Aboriginal/Settler Representations in the Contemporary Australian Literary Landscape'.

In 2010, Jeanine's first volume of poetry, Dark Secrets After Dreaming: AD 1887-1961 won the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry from the Australian Poets' Union, after it had been shortlisted in the David Unaipon Awards in 2006. Her poetry has been published in Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation, the Journal for the Association European Studies of Australia, and the Australian Book Review.

Jeanine's novel manuscript Purple Threads won the David Unaipon Award for 2010 at the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, and the following year was published by the University of Queensland Press (UQP). Purple Threads was also shortlisted for the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize and the Victorian Premier's Award for Indigenous Writing.

Widely published on the topic of Aboriginal literature, she has taught creative writing and Aboriginal Literature at the University of Melbourne.

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y separately published work icon Gawimarra : Gathering St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2024 27046217 2024 selected work poetry 'This superb collection moves from deeply tender meditations on Country, culture and kinship, to experimental archival poems dissecting the violence and destruction of the settler-colony. Jeanine Leane’s poems are richly palpable in texture, imagery and language, layering the personal with the political, along with a sharp-tongued telling of history. Cleverly divided into three parts, ‘Gathering’, ‘Nation’ and ‘Returning’, Gawimarra weaves back and forth in a dedication to strong matriarchs, and the core acts of gathering and returning – memory, language, history – resonate powerfully throughout. A remarkable book that is the result of decades of poetic, political, and cultural work and reflection.' 

(Publication summary)

2021 shortlisted Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest
Black Child i "Black child —", 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 239 2020; (p. 61)
2019 winner Queensland Poetry Festival Awards Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize
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