In this webinar, Jessica J Lee will consider the core themes of her book Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging, including ideas of kinship, language for native and invasive plants, and will explore the connections between cultural histories, personal histories, and botanical histories. She’ll intersperse readings with discussion, leaving time for questions at the end. Bring your questions about writing, navigating identity through the history of plants, and more.
Speaker Bio:
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, the Taiwan Open Book Award, and the RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writer Award. She is the author of three books of nature writing, Turning, Two Trees Make a Forest, and Dispersals, the children’s book A Garden Called Home, and co-editor of the essay collection Dog Hearted. She 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. Jessica is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review and teaches creative writing at the University of King’s College. She lives in Berlin.