Rebecca Giggs
Rebecca Giggs writes about ecology and the environmental imagination, animals, landscape, politics and memory. Her essays and stories have appeared in The Best Australian Science Writing, The Best Australian Stories, Aeon, Meanjin and the Monthly. She teaches at Macquarie University in Sydney. Her first book is forthcoming from Scribe.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
The Leech Barometer
Rebecca Giggs
‘To be consumed by leeches is to be vital, to be animate, though it is also to be reminded you are something else’s prey, and therefore porous and mortal.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 142
Loggerheads
Rebecca Giggs
‘What idiom or instrument captures how the weather is felt by the animals, in their bodies, their nests and niches?’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 133
Whale Fall
Rebecca Giggs
‘The whale as landfill. It was a metaphor, and then it wasn’t.’
