Keriann McGoogan (PhD) is an author and trained primatologist. She received her PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Toronto. In pursuit of primates, she has lived and worked in Belize and Madagascar. She is the author a memoir Chasing Lemurs: My Journey Into the Heart of Madagascar (Prometheus Books, 2020) and Sisters of the Jungle: The Trailblazing Women Who Shaped the Study of Wild Primates (Douglas & McIntyre, 2025). McGoogan’s writing has also appeared in The Walrus, Orion, Outpost Magazine, the Toronto Star, and as part of the anthology Bad Artist: Creating in a Productivity Obsessed World (Touchwood Editions, 2024).