
She won support from Writers Victoria through the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund to visit the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany as a writing fellow in 2018. She was awarded the 2017 Mick Dark flagship fellowship by Varuna for "The Whale in the Room", the working title for Fathoms. Giggs is an honorary fellow at the Macquarie University in Sydney.

She holds an LLB, BA Arts (Hons) and a PhD in ecological literary studies conferred in 2014.


Giggs studied at the University of Western Australia. Rebecca Giggs is a Perth-based Australian nonfiction writer, known for Fathoms: The World in the Whale.
