Artists

Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic from southwest New South Wales. Her first volume of poetry, Dark Secrets After Dreaming: A.D. 1887-1961 (2010, Presspress) won the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry, 2010 and her first novel, Purple Threads (UQP), won the David Unaipon Award for an unpublished Indigenous writer in 2010 and was shortlisted for the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize and the Victorian Premier’s Award for Indigenous Writing, 2012.

Her poetry and short stories have been published in Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation, The Journal for the Association European Studies of Australia, Australian Poetry Journal, Antipodes and the Australian Book Review. Jeanine has published widely in the area of Aboriginal literature, writing otherness and creative non-fiction.

Leane was the recipient of the 2019 Red Room Fellowship.

In Residence at Bundanon 2026

I will be working on a new project called Yinaa-galang-gu giilang. This book-length story will span four generations of women and will be told in four separate, but interconnected arcs from the 1890s when my Gunhinarrung (Grandmother) was a child to the early 21st century when I am an adult who has been gifted stories and memories. I intend to work on as part of this residency, with the aim of completing a full final draft to present to a publisher by the end of 2026.