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
“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:
“Of Field and Forest: Aesthetics and the Nonhuman on Hampstead Heath” / PhD Dissertation (2016)
“Home Life: Cultivating a Domestic Aesthetic” / Contemporary Aesthetics (2010)