Brandon Keim is a freelance journalist specializing in science, nature, and animals. His latest book, Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-Than-Human World, explores animal personhood — knowing animals as thinking, feeling beings — and our relationships to wildlife and the natural world. His first book, The Eye of the Sandpiper, was published in 2017.

Keim has written three issue-length treatments for National Geographic: Inside Animal Minds, Secrets of Animal Communication, and The Genius of Dogs. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, WIRED, Nautilus, and other publications; he is currently a contributing editor at Nautilus.