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, the Banff Mountain Book Award, and the RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writer Award. She is the author of Turning, Two Trees Make a Forest, Dispersals, and the children’s book A Garden Called Home, and co-editor of the essay collection Dog Hearted. She is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review and teaches creative writing at the University of Cambridge. She lives in Berlin.
Jessica J. Lee
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The Most Dangerous Plant in Britain
IT IS HARD TO HEAR HIM speak beneath the roar of lorries on Orient Way. Every few seconds, a petrol-scented tailwind gusts along the roadside, and all the branches shudder. Twelve Continue reading
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Jessica Lee Answers the Orion Questionnaire
In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane. Jessica J. Lee is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review, author of Two Trees Continue reading
Lay of the Land
The Coffin Trees
WINTER RAIN in Taiwan’s mountains seems to hang in the air, getting into every seam of my clothes. The weather was warm when I left the city, but two thousand meters up, Continue reading