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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 and is now available for preorder.
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’m presently a contributing editor), 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.