Jessica J. Lee
British-Canadian author and environmental historian; Two Trees Make a Forest.
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- Jessica J.
- Lee is a British and Canadian author and environmental historian, born in Canada to a Welsh father and a Taiwanese mother.
- Her memoir Two Trees Make a Forest (2019), about Taiwan, won the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
- In 2018 she founded The Willowherb Review, which ran until 2022.
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- Education
- BA, University of King's College, Halifax; MRes, University of London; PhD in environmental history and aesthetics, York University1
- Books
- Turning (2017); Two Trees Make a Forest (2019); Dispersals (2024); A Garden Called Home (2024)1
- Awards
- RBC Taylor Prize for Emerging Writers (2019); Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize and Boardman Tasker Award (2020)1
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