Bonnie Lander Johnson
I'm a Fellow of Downing, Cambridge and Blackfriars, Oxford.
I write fiction, journalism, academic books about Shakespeare and Renaissance culture and critical editions of Catholic women writers.
In Cambridge, I teach 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)
'Young Love', Belfast Review 1 (2024)
'blackwhite', Cutleaf (2024)
'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, 2013)
Blood Matters (Pennsylvania University Press, 2018)
Cambridge Handbook to Literature and Plants (2024)
Botanical Culture and Popular Belief in Shakespeare’s England (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Journalism
My writing for UK print has covered British history, writers Alice Thomas Ellis, Caryll Houselander, Houselander again, Sheila Kaye-Smith, all of these writers and why they were forgotten, Christos Tsiolkas, food, almanacs, camping, cooking, women's health, the pandemic, history's forgotten protesters, Frida Kahlo, and nature.
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