Biography

Jessica J. Lee is a bestselling 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, the Taiwan Open Book Award, and the RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writer Award. Her books include Dispersals, Two Trees Make a Forest, Turning, and the children’s book A Garden Called Home. She is co-author of this too is a glistening, and co-editor of the collections Dog Hearted and Tendrils. Her other works include publications in Granta, Orion, and The Guardian, among others, radio documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service, and an art installation in London’s Senate House Library.

Jessica has a PhD in Environmental History and Aesthetics and was Writer-in-Residence at the Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology in Berlin from 2017–2018. She is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review and teaches creative writing at the University of King’s College. She lives in Berlin.