Kathryn Gillespie, PhD is a writer, multispecies ethnographer, and feminist geographer. Her research and teaching interests focus on critical animal studies, ethnography and qualitative methods; feminist theory and methods; food and agriculture; and human-environment relations. She is the author of The Cow with Ear Tag #1389 [University of Chicago Press, 2018]. She has also published in numerous scholarly journals and has co-edited three books: Vulnerable Witness: The Politics of Grief in the Field [University of California Press, 2018, co-edited with Patricia J. Lopez]; Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, Intersections and Hierarchies in a Multispecies World [Routledge, 2015, co-edited with Rosemary-Claire Collard]; and Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life and Grievable Death [Routledge, 2015, co-edited with Patricia J. Lopez]. Her current book project The Sound of Feathers: Haunting & Bearing Witness in Multispecies Worlds is forthcoming with Duke University Press. Gillespie worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Kentucky in the Department of Geography to develop the Masters in Applied Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program and prior to that was as an Animal Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at Wesleyan University (2016-2018). Kathryn has volunteered with Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (a Puget Sound, WA-based prison education organization), Food Empowerment Project (a food justice organization in Cotati, CA), Pigs Peace Sanctuary (a sanctuary for pigs in Stanwood, WA), and served as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) in King County, WA.