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  • Bonnie Lander Johnson is Fellow and Associate Professor at Downing College, Cambridge University, where she teaches the literature and history from the early modern period to the present. She is senior advisor to the Downing College literary magazine, The Leaves, and sits on the steering committee of the BBC / Cambridge National Short Story Award and Young Writers Award. Bonnie’s academic books include Botanical Culture and Popular Belief in Shakespeare’s England (Cambridge University Press), The Cambridge Handbook to Literature and Plants, Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press) and Blood Matters (University of Pennsylvania Press). Her non-fiction has appeared in Hinterland, Howl and Dappled Things, and her fiction has been shortlisted for The Royal Society of Literature’s V. S. Pritchett Prize and The Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize. In 2025 her first creative non-fiction book, Vanishing Landscapes, will be published by Hodder and Stoughton.

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