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I'm Brandon Keim, an independent journalist specializing in animals, nature, and science. My latest book is Meet the Neighbors, about what animal personhood — knowing them as thinking, feeling beings — means for our relationships to wild animals and to nature. It will be published by W. W. Norton & Company in July 2024.

My first book, The Eye of the Sandpiper, was published in 2017 by the Cornell University Press. I’ve written three issue-length treatments for National Geographic: Inside Animal Minds, Secrets of Animal Communication, and The Genius of Dogs. My work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, The Atlantic, WIRED, National Geographic, Nautilus (where I presently edit the Ocean section), and The Guardian. I've made broadcast appearances on NPR's Science Friday and Here & Now, PRI's The World and CBC's As It Happens.

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I live in Bangor, Maine.