Leah Griesmann

A former Steinbeck Fellow in Fiction at San Jose State University, Leah Griesmann's writing has recently appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Worcester Review, and This Side of the Divide: Stories of the American West, among other publications.

How the Mistakenly Named “Himalayan” Blackberry Became a California Summer Tradition

July 7, 2020 • by Leah Griesmann

With five to seven leaves resembling outstretched fingers on the palm of a hand, the blackberry Rubus armeniacus grows from curved, blood-red stalks resembling veins. Sonoma County horticulturalist Luther Burbank acquired the seeds in 1885 from a trader in India, … Read more