Jessica J. Lee

Writer and Author of "Dispersals"

Jessica J. Lee is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese author, environmental historian, and winner of the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature, a Banff Mountain Book Award, and the RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writer Award. She is the author of three books of nature writing, Turning: A Year in the Water (Hamish Hamilton, 2017), Two Trees Make a Forest (Hamish Hamilton, 2020), and Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging (Catapult, 2024), the children’s book A Garden Called Home (Tundra Books, 2024), and co-editor of the essay collection Dog Hearted (Daunt Books, 2023). She has a PhD in environmental history and aesthetics. Jessica is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review and teaches creative writing at the University of Cambridge and the University of King’s College.