Carol Gigliotti is an author, artist, and scholar whose work focuses on the reality of animals’ lives as important contributors to the biodiversity of this planet. She is Professor Emerita of Design and Dynamic Media and Critical and Cultural Studies at the Emily Carr University of Design, Vancouver, BC. Canada. Her book, The Creative Lives of Animals, (NYU Press, 2022) challenges the current assumptions of creativity, offering a more comprehensive understanding through recognizing animal creativity, cognition, consciousness, and agency. The book was a Nautilus Gold Award Winner in the Animal and Nature Category in 2023. She is the editor of the book, Leonardo’s Choice: Genetic Technologies and Animals (Springer, 2009). Her writing has appeared in The Scientist, Antennae, Leonardo, Humanimalia and the Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies and praised in the WSJ, The Economist, Scientific American, Nature, the Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly and EcoLit Books, among other publications. She has been interviewed by NPR, CBC One, Psychology Today, Sentientism, Knowing Animals, Culture and Animals Foundation, the Austrian Broadcast Radio show “Im Sumpf”, The Animal Turn, and The Deal with Animals, among others.