Jeanine Leane (born 1961) is a Wiradjuri poet and activist from southwest New South Wales.
[3] She earned her BA in Literature and History from University of New England, Armidale in 1983.
[3] She had a long career as a secondary school teacher before becoming faculty at University of Melbourne.
[2] She was an Indigenous Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
[5] Leane's poetry and creative works explore Aboriginal perspectives and settler presentations in literature, and Aboriginal writing "as an important site of personal, national and collective memory.