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Jessica J. Lee

Jessica J. Lee is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese author and environmental historian, and winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writer Award. She is the author of two books of nature writing: Turning (2017), on the lakes around Berlin, and Two Trees Make a Forest (2019), on Taiwan, family, and migration. She has written for The Guardian, BBC Radio 4, The TLS, and writes a column about plants and people for Catapult. Jessica is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review. She lives in Berlin.