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Jessica J. Lee

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Jessica J. Lee is a bestselling British-Canadian-Taiwanese author and environmental historian. She is the author of Turning, Two Trees Make a Forest, and Dispersals, the children’s book A Garden Called Home, co-author (with fieldnotes collective) of the collaborative work this too is a glistening, and co-editor of the essay collection Dog Hearted and the eco-poetry collection Tendrils. Her work has received numerous awards internationally, including the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, a Banff Mountain Book Award, the Taiwan Open Book Award, and the RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writer Award. 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 King’s College. She lives in Berlin.

Books by Jessica J. Lee

Dispersals

A poetic and intimate essay collection on the lives of plants and their entanglement with our human worlds

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A Garden Called Home

What makes the place we live feel like home? This is a warm-hearted and lush picture book about family, the immigrant experience and how a simple garden can foster a connection to the larger natural world.

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