About

Jane Gleeson-White is a reader, writer and astrologer living on unceded Gadigal country of the Eora Nation.

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 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, and to her August 2024 interview with astrologer Heather Ensworth here.