Rebecca Giggs is a writer from Perth, Western Australia. Her work has been widely published, including in Best Australian Essays, Best Australian Science Writing, Best Australian Stories, Granta, Aeon, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and Griffith Review. Rebecca’s nonfiction focuses on how people feel about, and feel for, animals in a time of technological change and ecological crisis.

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Rebecca Giggs
Biography
Awards
- Winner of the 2020 NIB Literary Award
- Winner of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
- Shortlisted for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction
- Shortlisted for the 2021 The Stella Prize
- Winner of the 2021 WA Premier’s Prize for an Emerging Writer
- Commended for the 2021 The Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation
- Shortlisted for the 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature for Non-Fiction
- Shortlisted for the 2021 PEN/E.O. Literary Science Writing Award