Rebecca Giggs

Rebecca writes about how people feel toward animals in a time of ecological crisis and technological change.

Her debut nonfiction book, Fathoms: The World in the Whale, is out in 2020 with Simon & Schuster (US), and Scribe (Aus/UK).

Rebecca's essays and articles have appeared in Best Australian Science Writing and Best Australian Essays, as well as in The Atlantic, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, and Griffith Review. Her topics span jellyfish swarms, how sea-turtles fare in heatwaves, the history of leeches as weather prediction devices, and whether cows have friends.

The unceded, sovereign lands Rebecca principally writes on, in Australia, are within the Whadjuk region of Noongar country — land that is, and always was, Aboriginal.

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