thumbnail image
  • Home
  • Contact
  • …  
    • Home
    • Contact

Academic

Essayist

Fiction Writer

  • Home
  • Contact
  • …  
    • Home
    • Contact
    • Home
    • Contact
    • …  
      • Home
      • Contact

    Academic

    Essayist

    Fiction Writer

    • Home
    • Contact
    • …  
      • Home
      • Contact

      Academic

      Essayist

      Fiction Writer

      • Bonnie Lander Johnson

         

        I'm a Fellow of Downing, Cambridge and Blackfriars, Oxford.

         

        I write literary essays, fiction, journalism, academic books about Shakespeare and Renaissance culture (botany, medicine, theology, politics), and critical editions of writing by forgotten women of the Catholic Literary Revival.

         

        In Cambridge, I teach English Literature and represent the University on the BBC / Cambridge National Short Story Award.


        My agent is Anna Power at Johnson & Alcock.

        Fiction & Non-Fiction

         

        Vanishing Landscapes, Hodder & Stoughton (2025)

         

        'Treasure', Hinterland 10 (2022), nominated for the Pushcart Prize, 2023

         

        'Idolatry' Shortlisted for the Royal Literary Society V.S Pritchett Prize (2021) and the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Award (2022)

         

        'Green', HOWL (2022), nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2023

         

        'The Tree That Grows Forever', Dappled Things (2022), second place in the Jacques Maritain Prize

         

        Catholic Women Writers Series

         

        The Dry Wood, Caryll Houselander (CUA)

         

        The End of The House of Alard, Sheila Kaye-Smith (CUA)

         

        One Poor Scruple, Josephine Ward (CUA)

         

        The Complete Stories of Enid Dinnis (CUA)

         

        Academic Books

         

        Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press)

         

        Blood Matters (Pennsylvania University Press)

         

        Cambridge Handbook to Literature and Plants (out soon)

         

        Botanical Culture and Popular Belief in Shakespeare’s England (out soon)

      • Journalism

        My writing for UK print has covered British history, writers Alice Thomas Ellis, Caryll Houselander, Houselander again, and Christos Tsiolkas, food, almanacs, camping, cooking, women's health, the pandemic, history's forgotten protesters, Frida Kahlo, and nature.

      © 2020. Built with Strikingly.

        Cookie Use
        We use cookies to ensure a smooth browsing experience. By continuing we assume you accept the use of cookies.
        Learn More