Jessica Pierce is an American bioethicist whose work explores environmental bioethics, animal ethics, and the philosophy of human–animal relationships. She is the author of fourteen books, including Who’s a Good Dog? And How to Be a Better Human and Dogpedia: A Brief Compendium of Canine Curiosities. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, the Guardian, TIME, and Scientific American. Pierce is a faculty affiliate at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical School. She writes with a deep commitment to mindful, compassionate, and just forms of coexistence between humans and the many other lives with whom we share the planet. She lives in the Colorado Rockies.