Rebecca Giggs is an author from Perth, Australia. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Emergence, New York Review of Books, Granta, and in anthologies including Best Australian Essays, and Best Australian Science Writing. Rebecca’s writing focuses on the natural world and animals in particular: the power animals hold over us and the duties we owe to other species, given the ecological and technological transformations of our age.

Rebecca’s debut book Fathoms: The World in the Whale was awarded the Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Prize, the Royal Society’s Whitley Award for Popular Zoology, and the Western Australian Premier’s Prize for an Emerging Author; it was also shortlisted for the Stella Prize. In the US Fathoms won the prestigious ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and in the UK, the book was ‘Highly Commended’ in the shortlist for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation. Fathoms has been translated into several languages, including Korean, Italian, Mandarin, Slovakian and Spanish.