Recently the book was distinguished by being 'Highly Commended' in the shortlist for the 2021 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation. It was also shortlisted for the 2021 Stella Prize - Australia's most renown award for writing by women and non-binary authors in any genre. In Australia, Fathoms won the 2020 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Prize for Literature, the Royal Zoological Society's Whitley Award for Popular Zoology, and the WA Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer. The book also listed as a finalist in the Kirkus Prize and the PEN/E.O. In the US Fathoms was awarded the prestigious 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. From 2014 to early 2018 I had a full-time job in Sydney, so I largely wrote in the early mornings and on weekends in cafes and local libraries. Her debut nonfiction book, Fathoms: The World in the Whale, came out in 2020 with Simon & Schuster (US), and Scribe (Aus/UK). I started the book in 2013, but over the course of writing it I took two extended breaks of six-months each so I say that it took me six years to write Fathoms. Her topics span jellyfish swarms, how sea-turtles fare in heatwaves, the history of leeches as weather prediction devices, and whether cows have friends. Rebecca writes about how people feel toward animals in a time of ecological crisis and technological change. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Best Australian Essays, Best Australian Science Writing, and other publications. Rebecca Giggs is an award-winning writer from Perth, Australia.
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