Jessica J. Lee

Jessica J. Lee is a British and Canadian author,[1] environmental historian, and the founding editor of The Willowherb Review.[2]

Jessica J. Lee
NationalityBritish and Canadian
Occupationwriter
Websitehttps://www.jessicajleewrites.com/

Biography

Lee was born in Canada, to a Welsh father and a Taiwanese mother. She was brought up in Canada, lived in London and Berlin.[3]

She received her BA from University of King's College in Halifax, her MA from University of London.[4] She then received her PhD in Environmental History and Aesthetics from York University.

In 2018, Lee founded The Willowherb Review.[5][6] Lennie Goodings, in A Bite of the Apple, listed Lee's founding of the review in naming her as an instance of an individual famous for their feminist views putting their fame and fortune to use to act on their beliefs.[7]

Reviewers noted that her 2019 memoir Two Trees Make a Forest incorporates elements of environmental analysis to her account of exploring Taiwan, where her mother was born.[8][9] The book won the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.[10]

Awards

Lee won the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize for emerging authors.[4] The prize came with $10,000 cash, and the mentorship of Kate Harris.[11]

Publications
  • Jessica J. Lee (2017). Turning: A Swimming Memoir. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN 9780349008349.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  • Jessica J. Lee (2020). Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past. Penguin Canada. ISBN 9780735239586.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

References
  1. "Jessica J. Lee". Sierra Club. 5 August 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  2. "12 Canadian books coming out in July we can't wait to read". CBC Books. 7 July 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2020. A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. Rath, Anna von. "Turning: A Swimming Memoir". poco.lit. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  4. "Jessica J. Lee awarded RBC Taylor Prize". David Godwin Associates. 17 April 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2020. RBC Taylor Prize Founder Noreen Taylor commented: "Jessica J. Lee is exactly the kind of writer we envision for the Emerging Author award. A multi-talented young person, Lee is about to break out on several fronts.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. Jessica J. Lee (July 2019). "Editor's note". The Willowherb Review. Retrieved 24 July 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. "The best books of 2019 – picked by the year's best writers". The Guardian. 1 December 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2020. Lee is editor of the Willowherb Review, publishing nature writing by writers of colour, including Nina Mingya Powles, winner of the inaugural Nan Shepherd prize.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. Lennie Goodings (2020). A Bite of the Apple: Behind the Scenes at Virago Press. Oxford University Press. p. 63. ISBN 9780198828754. Retrieved 25 July 2020.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. Kristen Schott (24 April 2020). "The Language of Self-Discovery: On Jessica J. Lee's "Two Trees Make a Forest"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 24 July 2020. JESSICA J. LEE ASKS the reader to consider slippery definitions of family in her complicated but thoughtful memoir, Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts, which weaves the political character of Taiwan with her family's own heritage and her journey of self-discovery amid the rural landscapes of the island.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. Katie Burton (6 March 2020). "TWO TREES MAKE A FOREST: On Memory, Migration and Taiwan by Jessica J Lee book review". Geographical magazine. Retrieved 24 July 2020. Intermingled family, geographical and political history make this a fascinating and gentle read. It is both an introduction to Taiwan, its people and its topography, and a highly personal, and honest, account of one family.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. Craig Takeuchi, "Gil Adamson, Jessica J. Lee win Writers’ Trust literary prizes". Now, November 19, 2020.
  11. Jane van Koeverden (16 April 2019). "Jessica J. Lee wins $10K RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writer Award". CBC Books. Retrieved 25 July 2020. Jessica J. Lee, author of the memoir Turning, has been awarded the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writer Award, a prize that comes with $10,000 and mentorship from RBC Taylor Prize winner Kate Harris.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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