Leigh Calvez is a scientist, naturalist and nature writer. Her interest in the natural world led her to nature writing and her first book the New York Times bestseller The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature’s Most Elusive Birds. Her second book, The Breath of a Whale: The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants, received two Silver Nautilus Awards in 2020. Leigh’s essays have been published in American Nature Writing 2003 and an anthology for Sierra Club Books entitled Between Species: Celebrating the Dolphin-Human Bond, as well as Smithsonian Magazine, High Country News, The Ecologist, Ocean Realm, The Christian Science Monitor, The Seattle Times and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
