Rebecca Giggs is an author from Perth, Australia. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Emergence, the New York Times Magazine, Granta, and in anthologies including Best Australian Essays, and Best Australian Science Writing. Rebecca’s nonfiction focuses on how people feel towards animals in a time of technological and ecological change.

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.