Writing

(& Other Media)

Selected clips:

“Learning the Language of Plants” / Orion

“What would a Taiwanese story look like, out of the shadow of China?” / The Globe and Mail

“Giant Steps” / The Observer

“A Thousand Words for Weather” / Art installation for Artangel / Senate House Library

“回 | An Alley (Return)” / Granta

“A Record (Rain)” / Essay in Where My Feet Fall / Harper Collins

“How to Study the Mosses” / Essay in This Book is a Plant / Profile Books

“Under the Canopy” / A three-part radio series on forests / BBC World Service

“We’re in a golden age of nature writing…” / Comment for The i Paper

“Non-Native Species” Column / Catapult

“My Dad’s Little Piece of Wales in Canada” / The Guardian

“Greener Grass: A Decade of Nature
Writing in Review” / The TLS

“Nature’s Son: On the trail of Theodor Fontane” / The Guardian

“A Dictionary for Past Plants” / Essay for Caught by the River

“Taiwan’s Flooded Forest” / Metro UK

“Pond: A Dendrochronology” / Essay in At the Pond / Daunt Books

“Congee Dreams” / Audio essay for Short Cuts / BBC Radio 4

“Stechlin” / Radio documentary for Short Cuts / BBC Radio 4

“Learning to Cook Like My Chinese Grandparents, One Dumpling at a Time” / MUNCHIES

“In Motion” / Audio essays for Short Cuts / BBC Radio 4

“Towards Winter” / The Travel Episodes

“A Wealth of Water: On Learning to Love Brandenburg” / OSS

Selected scholarly writing:

“A Walk in the Long Grass: Agriculture, Aesthetics, and Wildness on Hampstead Heath” / Landscape Research (2018)

“Of Field and Forest: Aesthetics and the Nonhuman on Hampstead Heath” / PhD Dissertation (2016)

“Home Life: Cultivating a Domestic Aesthetic” / Contemporary Aesthetics (2010)