Jessica Pierce is an internationally acclaimed bioethicist and writer whose work focuses on animals, ethics, and the everyday ways humans can learn to live more thoughtfully with other species. She has published fourteen books, including Morality Play: Case Studies in Ethics,A Dog’s World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans, and, most recently, Dogpedia: A Brief Compendium of Canine Curiosities. Her essays have appeared in TheNew York Times, The Washington Post, TheGuardian, TIME, and Scientific American. Pierce is a faculty affiliate at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine. She lives in the Colorado Rockies, where she shares her life with a very special dog named Bella and a very special human named Chris.