Born in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, steeped in both literary and scientific traditions, Jessica J. Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion. In this vibrant book of linked essays she explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds, and the echoes and counterpoints she detects in the migration of plants and people – and the language we use to describe them.
Jessica J. Lee is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese author and environmental historian. She is the author of three books of nature writing, Turning, Two Trees Make a Forest and Dispersals, and has been awarded the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature, and the RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writer Award. Jessica is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review and is a researcher at the University of Cambridge.