Vanishing Landscapes: The Story of Plants and How We Lost Them

Bonnie Lander Johnson is Fellow and Lecturer at Downing College, Cambridge University, where she teaches the literature and history of the early modern period and represents the University on the BBC/Cambridge National Short Story Award. Her 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). Bonnie is also a fiction and non-fiction writer. Her work 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.