Jessica J. Lee
CBC Books | | Posted: January 14, 2021 2:00 PM | Last Updated: January 14, 2021
Author of Two Trees Make a Forest, championed by Scott Helman
Canada Reads will take place March 8-11. The debates will be hosted by Ali Hassan and will be broadcast on CBC Radio One, CBC TV, CBC Gem and on CBC Books.
About Jessica J. Lee
Jessica J. Lee is a British Canadian Taiwanese author and environmental historian. She won the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the 2020 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature and the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writer Award. She is the author of two books of nature writing: Turning and Two Trees Make a Forest. Lee has a PhD in environmental history and aesthetics and was the writer-in-residence at the Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology in Berlin from 2017–2018. Lee is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review and a researcher at the University of Cambridge. She currently lives in London. (From Hamish Hamilton)
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Books by Jessica J. Lee
Interviews with Jessica J. Lee
The Canada Reads 2021 contenders
- Rosey Edeh champions The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk
- Scott Helman champions Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica J. Lee
- Devery Jacobs champions Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
- Paul Sun-Hyung Lee champions Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
- Roger Mooking champions Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi