Works Cited
Araluen, Evelyn. Dropbear. University of Queensland Press, 2021.
Hackenberg, Haylee. ‘Evelyn Araluen on The Rot: Poetry, Rage and the Power of Not Surrendering.’ Ramona Magazine, 2026.
Jordan, June cited in Darlene Clark Hine’s Black Women in America. Bloomington University of Indiana Press, 2005.
Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri poet, essayist, and author from the Marrambidya River. Her poetry and literary critique have been widely published in literary journals and magazines such as Overland, Sydney Review of Books, and Westerly. She is the author of two volumes of poetry and one novel and currently lives on the lands of the East Kulin Nation, in Naarm, Melbourne. Her collection Gawimarra: Gathering won the 2025 VPLA prize for poetry.