Jeanie Leane

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.