About Jessica J. Lee

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, 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. Jessica is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review. Jessica’s latest book, Dispersals was shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for nature writing.

In this episode, we discuss Lee’s new book Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging, and how we might challenge our notions and language around plants to craft a more capacious sense of belonging to encompass multicultural, migrant identities. We reflect on how the stories of plants’ movement might reflect our own more complicated stories of belonging across borders.

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