Eva Meijer (1980) is a writer and philosopher. She is the author of an extensive oeuvre, which has been translated into eighteen languages. Sea: Now is her sixth novel. Her work often deals with questions of language and politics, also in relation to other animals and the natural world. She currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam and writes essays and columns for Dutch newspapers.
Her PhD-thesis was published as When Animals Speak. Toward an Interspecies Democracy by New York University Press. It was awarded the Erasmianum Dissertatieprijs in 2018 and won the ASCA Book Award in 2020.
Meijer currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam, supported by a VENI-grant from the NWO (Dutch Science Council), on the research project The politics of (not) eating animals. She also works as a postdoctoral researcher at Wageningen University and Research.
"Humans have spent decades trying to teach other animals our languages (...) but we’ve made little effort to learn theirs." – The New York Review of Books
"Meijer reveals fascinating research into how animals communicate." – The Guardian