Rebecca Giggs

Rebecca Giggs is an Australian nonfiction writer and essayist born in London, UK in 1982, who moved to Perth, Western Australia at an early age; she holds a PhD in ecological literary studies from the University of Western Australia (2014) and is an honorary fellow at Macquarie University. Solitude. Her debut book, Fathoms: The World in the Whale (2020), won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, Nib Literary Award, and Western Australian Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer, among others, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and Wainwright Prize. She writes about ecology, animals, and human-nature relationships, with essays in The Atlantic, Granta, and Best Australian Essays. Goodreads.