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  • Bonnie Lander Johnson

    I am a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. 

    I write literary essays, fiction, journalism, academic books about Shakespeare and Renaissance culture (botany, medicine, theology, politics), and critical editions of novels by the 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. I am working on book-length projects, both fiction and non-fiction. 

    Writing Workshops and Speaking Engagements

    Fiction & Non-Fiction

    '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)

     

    My agent is Anna Power at Johnson & Alcock

    Catholic Women's Writing 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 (Penn 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.

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