Eva Meijer

Eva Meijer (born 1980) is a Dutch philosopher, writer, visual artist and singer-songwriter.

Work

Eva Meijer is a philosopher, visual artist, writer and singer-songwriter. They write novels, philosophical essays, academic texts, poems and columns. Meijer published twenty books and their work has been translated into over twenty languages. Meijer works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam and writes essays and columns for Dutch newspapers. They are a member of the Multispecies Collective, a multispecies art collective, and De Vereniging ter Bevordering van Troost (The Association for the Promotion of Consolation), an art collective focused on healing and developing new practices of care. Meijer is co-chair of the Dutch Study Group for Animal Philosophy. At the University of Amsterdam, Meijer organized the Long Covid+ Conversations (2024-2025), an online lecture series about long covid and other postviral conditions, aimed at creating philosophical knowledge and fostering solidarity.

Bird Cottage creates a fictional life for the British naturalist and musician Gwendolen Howard, based on the little that is known of her. Howard studied birds in Sussex. In Animal Languages''' and in When Animals Speak, Meijer argues that animals have been speaking to humans all along, if only we would recognise it, and that humans should learn to understand what they are telling us, for their protection and ours.

Books published in EnglishBird Cottage. London: Pushkin, 2018. 2019. Translated from the Dutch by Antoinette Fawcett.Animal Languages: The Secret Conversations of the Living World. London/New York: Penguin Random House, 2020. . Translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson. When Animals Speak: Toward an Interspecies Democracy. New York: New York University Press, 2019. .The Limits of My Language: Meditations on Depression. London: Pushkin, 2021. . Translated from the Dutch by Antoinette FawcettMultispecies Dialogues. Doing Philosophy with Animals, Children, the Sea and Others. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2025. ISBN 9789048564415. Available Open Access here. Multispecies Assemblies. Vermont: VINE Press, 2025.Sea Now. Bath: Pereine Press, 2025. Translated from the Dutch by Anne Thompson Melo.

Forthcoming:Maybe is another Word for Hope.'' London: The Philosopher, 2025. Translated from the Dutch by David McKay.

A full list of publications can be accessed on Meijer's website. Academic publications can be found via Orcid.