About

Jane Gleeson-White is a reader and writer living on unceded Gadigal country of the Eora Nation, aka Sydney, Australia. She received a 2025 Whitlam Essay Residency to write about belief, unseen realms and ancestral hauntings. This is part of her ongoing research into the impact of war on the bodies of women and children, which includes My mother’s silence, my nation’s shame (Griffith Review, 2022) and Gardening the silence (Wonderground, 2022).

She is the author of four books, including the international bestseller Double Entry: How the merchants of Venice created modern finance (2011), and its sequel Six Capitals: Capitalism, climate change and accounting (2014, 2020). Six Capitals was the creative work for her PhD in creative writing - Nature in the 21st Century (2016) - which also included a scholarly dissertation on representations of Country in the novels of Alexis Wright and Kim Scott called Country Manifest. She was an adjunct lecturer in English literature and creative writing at the University of New South Wales from 2018 to 2024.

You can find links to Jane’s essays, reviews and articles here, to her blog here.