I'm Brandon Keim, a freelance journalist specializing in science, nature, and animals. My latest book, Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-Than-Human World, is about animal personhood — knowing them as thinking, feeling beings — and our relationships to wild animals and to nature.

My first book, The Eye of the Sandpiper, was published in 2017. 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, and Nautilus, where I’m presently a contributing editor. Some of my favorite stories are here.

I spend a lot of time meditating with a camera and recently started selling prints of photographs from Maine and a series of textiles I designed. My online store is now up and running!

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I live in Bangor, Maine.