Jessica J. Lee

Jessica J. Lee is a British and Canadian author and environmental historian.

She received her BA from University of King's College in Halifax and her MRes from University of London. She then received her PhD in Environmental History and Aesthetics from York University.

In 2018, Lee founded the non-fiction journal The Willowherb Review. Receiving funds from fewer than a hundred backers on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, Lee and company paid writers and artists to produce five issues, with the project formally ending in 2022. The journal had also been funded by a grant provided by Arts Council England.

Awards Lee won the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize for emerging authors. In 2021, the book won the Adventure Travel category of the Banff Mountain Book Award. Her 2024 book Dispersals was highly commended by the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing. The Traditional Chinese translation of the book also won the 2024 Openbook Good Book Prize in Taiwan.

Publications

Jessica J. Lee (2024). A Garden Called Home. Illustrated by Elaine Chen. Tundra Books. .