Purple Threads:
First Nations Classics (with an introduction by Evelyn Araluen)
by Jeanine Leane

Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic from south-west NSW. Her first volume of poetry, Dark Secrets After Dreaming: A.D. 1887–1961, won the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry; her first novel, Purple Threads, won the David Unaipon Award; and her latest book is the poetry collection Gawimarra. Jeanine has published widely in the area of Aboriginal literature, writing otherness and creative nonfiction. She was the recipient of the University of Canberra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Poetry Prize, and she has won the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize for Poetry twice. In 2023 she won the David Harold Tribe Award for Poetry, Australia’s richest poetry prize. She has been the recipient of a Red Room Poetry Fellowship and two Australian Research Council (ARC) Fellowships. Jeanine taught Creative Writing and Aboriginal Literature for many years at the University of Melbourne. She is the poetry editor of Meanjin.