with Jessica Lee, author and environmental historian
Friday, May 2, 2025 from 2-3 p.m. ET Virtual
$15 AHS members/$20 non-members
What happens when a plant—or a person—moves from one place to another? In this session, Jessica Lee presents short excerpts from her book, Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging, alongside an exploration of the book’s key themes: how we find kinship with plants across cultures, the language we use to describe “weeds”, and the ways human and plant histories have been entangled.
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 and was Writer-in-Residence at the Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology in Berlin from 2017–2018. Jessica is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review and teaches creative writing at the University of King’s College. She lives in Berlin.